The Boston Globe, December 12th, 1989
WASHINGTON - A yearlong scientific analysis of the photographs and notes brought back by Robert E. Peary establishes that the explorer reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909, just as he had asserted, the National Geographic Society said yesterday. The study was undertaken by the Navigators Foundation, a nonprofit organization that had asserted last February that there was room for scholarly doubt that the Navy admiral had reached his destination. The National Geographic Society sponsored Peary's mission and has defended the explorer's integrity. The foundation said earlier that a page of calc...
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