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] 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] His crew consisted of the following:[2][3] Relief expedition:

Eivind Astrup's map of the route