Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892

The Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892 was where Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. set out to determine if Greenland was an island, or was a peninsula of the North Pole.^[1]

Eivind Astrup's map of the route

History

Peary sailed from Brooklyn, New York on June 6, 1891 aboard the SS Kite.^[1] Aboard was Josephine Diebitsch Peary, making her the first female on an arctic expedition.^[1]

An expedition to find Peary was organized by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1892.^[1]

Crew

His crew consisted of the following:^[2][3]

• Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, surgeon and ethnologist
• John M. Verhoeff, mineralogist and meteorologist
• Langdon Gibson, ornithologist
• Matthew Alexander Henson, Eivind Astrup
• Josephine Diebitsch Peary, who was Peary's wife
• He was accompanied by Professors Benjamin Sharp and J. F. Holt, both zoologists from the academy.
• William E. Hughes, ornithologist
• Dr. Robert N. Keely, Jr., surgeon
• Levi Walter Mengel, entomologist
• Alexander C. Kenealy, correspondent of the New York Herald
• Frazer Ashhurst and W. H. Burk

Relief expedition:

• Angelo Heilprin, curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,
• Henry G. Bryant
• Jackson M. Mills, surgeon