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The Eskimo, Ootah, had his own explanation. Said he: "The devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily."

Robert Peary

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Robert Peary

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Born: May 6, 1856
Died: February 20, 1920 (aged 63)
Bio: Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.
Known for:
  1. Secrets of polar travel (1917)
  2. Snowland folk
  3. The North Pole (1910)

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