Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer who is usually credited as the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole.
Robert Edwin Peary
Peary Sledge Party and Flags at the Pole
Admiral R. E. Peary
in Polish encyclopedia (1912)
Peary's crew from the “Roosevelt”
Marie Peary, daughter of Robert E. Peary
Robert Peary monument at Cape York, Greenland. Picture taken April 1993