The Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892 was an expedition undertaken by the American explorer Robert Peary to determine whether Greenland was an island or a peninsula of the North Pole.
History Peary sailed from Brooklyn, New York, on June 6, 1891 aboard the . Josephine Diebitsch Peary, his wife, was aboard, making her the first woman to go on an arctic expedition.
An expedition to find Peary was organized by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1892.
Crew Peary's crew consisted of the following people: 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
The relief expedition comprised:
Angelo Heilprin, curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Henry G. Bryant Jackson M. Mills, surgeon
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