Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–92
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Eivind Astrup's map of the route
The Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892 was where Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. set out to determine if Greenland was an island, or was a peninsula of the North Pole.[1]
History
Peary sailed from Brooklyn, New York on June 6, 1891 aboard the SS Kite.[1] Aboard was Josephine Diebitsch Peary, making her the first female on an arctic expedition.[1]
An expedition to find Peary was organized by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1892.[1]
Crew
His crew consisted of the following:[2][3]
- Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, surgeon and ethnologist
- John M. Verhoeff, mineralogist and meteorologist
- Langdon Gibson, ornithologist
- Matthew Alexander Henson, Eivind Astrup
- Josephine Diebitsch Peary, who was Peary's wife
- He was accompanied by Professors Benjamin Sharp and J. F. Holt, both zoologists from the academy.
- William E. Hughes, ornithologist
- Dr. Robert N. Keely, Jr., surgeon
- Levi Walter Mengel, entomologist
- Alexander C. Kenealy, correspondent of the New York Herald
- Frazer Ashhurst and W. H. Burk
Relief expedition:
- Angelo Heilprin, curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,
- Henry G. Bryant
- Jackson M. Mills, surgeon
