Peary Arctic Club

Photograph of the SS Roosevelt
Roosevelt in the Hudson–Fulton parade in 1909
Peary flag flown on SS Roosevelt
Peary Arctic Club Exhibit ca 1918.

The Peary Arctic Club was an American-based club with the goal of promoting the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary (1856–1920).[1]

This association of influential persons was able to overcome the opposition of the U.S. Navy Department to grant the indispensable five–year leave for Peary's 1898 Arctic expedition.[2]

  1. ^ Peary Arctic Club Expedition to the North Pole, 1908-9
  2. ^ Robert Edwin Peary Encyclopedia Arctica 15: Biographies