Peary is located on the survey point boundary line for Clinton Township, Fayal Township, and McDavitt Township.
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A reservoir which had been built on the upper reaches of Queen's Creek to supply the substantial fresh water needs of Camp Peary when it was a Seabee base was divested to the City of Williamsburg.
He had left them with Harry Whitney, an American hunter who had traveled to Greenland with Peary the previous year, because of having insufficient manpower for a second sledge for his 700-mile journey south to Upernavik.
Peary has also contributed to numerous magazines, including Film Comment, Cineaste, Sight & Sound, the Boston Review, Flare, and Maclean's.
Situated on the north coast, Cape Columbia, is the northernmost point of Canada, only 770 km from the North Pole, and was used as the final point on land for Peary's North Pole expedition in 1909.
Morris Ketchum Jesup, banker, philanthropist, president of the American Museum of Natural History and the Peary Arctic Club.
The law was entitled, "An act to provide for the presentation of silver medals to certain members of the Peary Polar Expedition of 1908-1909." The law authorized the Secretary of the Navy to have made at the United States Mint, silver medals with which to reward six individuals for their service to the expedition.
The British explorer Tom Avery had disputed Herbert's conclusion after repeating Peary's expedition in 2005 and reaching the North Pole with his team.
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He was commissioned by the National Geographic Society, which had supported Peary's claim, to write an assessment of Peary's 1909 diary and astronomical observations.