On September 7, 1909, the New York Times ran a front-page headline stating 'Peary Discovers the North Pole After Eight Trials in 23 Years.'
Sources
- Who Discovered the North Pole? (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-black-american-to-reach-the-north-pole/ (daily.jstor.org)
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/columns/quest/quest-for-the-north-pole-episode-7-podcast-transcript (mentalfloss.com)
- https://www.grangeracademic.com/results.asp?inline=true&image=0259141&wwwflag=4&itemx=24 (grangeracademic.com)
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-peary (allthatsinteresting.com)
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