Frederick Cook
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Frederick Cook
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Frederick Albert Cook was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed; in December 1909, after reviewing Cook's limited records, a commission of the University of Copenhagen ruled his claim unproven. Nonetheless, in 1911, Cook published a memoir of the expedition in which he maintaine
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American explorer (1865–1940)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Cook
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2024-03-09T07:52:12Z
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