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Peary in particular perfected his smear campaign on Frederick Cook, and he pressed this policy in his treatment of Greely, launching witch hunts to boost his own public image.

Calef (1979) depicted KWI, along with Boothia Peninsula, the southern coast of Victoria Island, and the northern coast of mainland NWT and Nunavut, as being in a zone of overlap between Peary and barren-ground caribou, but did not include KWI when delineating more specific barren-ground herd ranges and calving grounds.

Shrinking sea ice matters to land dwellers too, as ice connections and transport options dwindle for seed-dispersing wildflowers and migrating Peary caribou (below).

Peary is a disgraced former ski star who has become a cynical alcoholic.

Taron Egerton as Eddie The Eagle with Hugh Jackman as fictional coach Bronson Peary

Taron Egerton as Eddie, with Hugh Jackman, who plays Bronson Peary

As he sets his sights on the 1988 Winter Olympics, Edwards (Taron Egerton) is taken under the wing of boozy ex-ski champ Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman).

Hugh Jackman plays Edwards' US coach, Bronson Peary.

Though it hardly wants for sincerity or ambition, Coixet's portrait of an arduous mid-career expedition by American explorer Josephine Peary is dramatically as pallid and lifeless as the frozen tundra on which it takes place, burdened with a hokey romanticism that doesn't complement its quasi-feminist purview.

Through her exhaustive research, she brings to life world traveller Lady Jane Franklin, wife of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin; Norwegian singer and cross-country ski pioneer Eva Nansen, wife of Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen; the adventurous Jo Peary, wife of Robert Peary, who, in a controversial race with Frederick Cooke, was credited with reaching the North Pole first; the tenacious Lady Emily Shackleton, wife of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton; sculptor Kathleen Scott, wife of Antarctic explorer Robert Scott; and Herbert's own mother, the free-spirited Marie Herbert, wife of Arctic explorer Wally Herbert.

Tom Clavin and Danny Peary. Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, The Miracle Mets, and The Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend.

1909: US Commander Robert Peary became the first man to reach the North Pole - though his claim has since been contested.

PEARY, Robert y COOK, Frederick, 2009: La batalla por el Polo Norte, Manzanares el Real (Madrid), Editorial Interfolio, 218 paginas.

Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole, culminating in the notable journey of 1909.