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Robert Peary is the man that discovered the North Pole. He accomplished this feat on April 6^th, 1909.He was accompanied by Mr. Matthew Henson. Robert was born on May 6^th, 1859 in Cresson, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Maine and in 1877 graduated from Bowdoin College. Robert and his wife Josephine had two children. He also had children with Inuit women. In 1881 he became a civil engineer in the United States Navy. In 1884-85 he worked in Nicaragua on a project where he surveyed a canal with the Navy. His first Arctic expedition was in 1886 and then other similar trips in 1891 and 1892. In all of theses trips Robert dog sledded across Greenland. Another expedition took place in 1898-1902, and yet another in 1905-06. Peary received a grant for his 1905-06 expedition to the tune of $50,000 from Mr. George Crocker with which he bought a new ship that he named the Roosevelt. Robert’s last expedition in 1908-09 was the expedition in which he found the North Pole. Five days before Peary found the North Pole Mr. Fredrick Cook, a doctor who had been on a previous expedition with Peary (he set Peary’s broken leg), claimed to have found the North Pole. For the most part this claim is rejected and Peary is credited with the finding. However some people have speculated, the Mr. Cook’s claim is true. The main point that people believing in Mr. Cook’s claim have to argue is that not all of Robert’s records are scientific and have room for error. Even so Robert Peary is still today credited with founding the North Pole on April 6^th, 1909. Robert Peary died on February 20, 1920 at the age of sixty-one.