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Robert Edwin Peary was a rear admiral in the USN, a civil engineer, an explorer, and a scientist who lived from 1856 to 1920. Bearing the motto Invenium Viam Avt Facium, this tribute was erected by the National Geographic Society and dedicated on April 6, 1922, by the President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Navy, the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, and the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society.
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