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Pea⋅ry

[peer-ee]
–noun
Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and arctic explorer.
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Pea·ry   (pîr'ē)   
American naval officer and Arctic explorer who led the expedition credited with first reaching the North Pole (1909). This claim was later rejected.
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