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    Peary is the closest large lunar impact crater to the lunar north pole. At this latitude the crater interior receives little sunlight, and portions of...
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  • Brunswick, Maine Mount Peary, a massif in Antarctic Peary (crater), the closest large lunar impact crater to the lunar north pole Maersk Peary, a Norway-registered...
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    Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (/ˈpɪəri/; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions...
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    at the Malapert mountain near the lunar south pole, or on the rim of Peary crater near the north pole. Since lunar regolith contains structural metals...
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    outposts included the rim of Peary crater near the lunar north pole and the Malapert Mountain region on the rim of Malapert crater. The outpost design included:...
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    March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent...
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  • that four locations along the rim of the Peary crater are candidates for peaks of eternal light. This crater lies near the north pole of the Moon. Clementine's...
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    irregular lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon. The north rim of Byrd is nearly connected to the crater Peary, a formation that...
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    west-southwestern rim. Just on the opposite side of the pole is the crater Peary. This formation is a large crater of the form called a walled plain. The outer rim is...
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    impact crater on the lunar near side near the northern pole. Florey is directly adjacent to Byrd crater (diameter of 94 km) to the Southeast and Peary crater...
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    the Southeast, Peary crater (diameter of 73 km) to the East-Northeast, and Byrd crater (diameter of 94 km) to the Southeast. The crater was adopted and...
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    Hinshelwood is a lunar crater located on the lunar near side near the lunar north pole. The crater is located in between the large craters Peary and Hermite, just...
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    Amundsen. Three prior expeditions – led by Frederick Cook (1908, land), Robert Peary (1909, land) and Richard E. Byrd (1926, aerial) – were once also accepted...
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    Retrieved December 7, 2016. Ballard, J. G. (February 1970). "Journey Across a Crater". New Worlds. No. 198. pp. 2–5. Retrieved April 6, 2020. Serling, Rod (1971)...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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  • The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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  • Peary was a Liberty ship which gained fame during World War II for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after Robert Peary...
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  • north of Fibiger are craters Erlanger and Peary, which are 9.9 km and 73 km in diameter, respectively. "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Fibiger on Moon"...
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    lunar impact crater that lies between the Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Insularum in the east. To the southeast is the crater Encke. Kepler...
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    lunar impact crater located on the lunar far side near the northern pole. The crater is located East of the prominent craters Byrd and Peary; the latter...
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    island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1900. Natural resources include zinc, lead, iron ore, coal, molybdenum...
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    to seasonally cross sea ice and the only other caribou to do so are the Peary caribou, which are smaller in size and population, and also occur on Victoria...
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    transitional forest zone between boreal forest and tundra; the nomadic Peary caribou (R. t. pearyi) lives in the polar desert of the High Arctic Archipelago...
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    Moon (section Impact craters)
    some peaks of eternal light at the Moon's north pole, at the rim of the crater Peary. The surface is exposed to drastic temperature differences ranging from...
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    History Frederick Cook (1865–1940): Surgeon and ethnologist to the first Peary Expedition to Greenland (1892); leader of the SS Miranda Expedition (1894);...
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    funds, when he heard in 1909 that the Americans Frederick Cook and Robert Peary had claimed to reach the North Pole as a result of two different expeditions...
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    Astronomical Union decided that a lunar crater, Bessel A, in the Sea of Serenity will be known as the Sarabhai crater. The lander on India's Moon mission...
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  • Karnataka, India Helvetia Tinde 1,929 6,329 Roosevelt Range – Highest peak in Peary Land, Northern Greenland Botte Donato 1,928 6,325 Sila Mountains, Calabria...
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    in 1860–61. Forty years after the novel's publication, in 1906, Robert Peary claimed to have sighted Crocker Land around 83° N, and in 1909, Frederick...
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    2005 Merged into Twin Rivers 364 Twin Rivers 364 518 Admiral Robert E. Peary Council Johnstown Pennsylvania 1936 1970 Merged with Blair-Bedford Area...
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