Editing Robert Peary (section)

====Review of Peary's diary====
[[File:Diary of Robert E. Peary - NARA - 304960.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|alt= Photograph of Peary's diary entry for his arrival at the North pole | Peary's diary entry for arrival at the [[North Pole]]]]
The diary that Robert E. Peary kept on his 1909 polar expedition was finally made available for research in 1986. Historian [[Larry Schweikart]] examined it, finding that: the writing was consistent throughout (giving no evidence of post-expedition alteration), there were consistent [[pemmican]] and other stains on all pages, and all evidence was consistent with a conclusion that Peary's observations were made on the spot he claimed. Schweikart compared the reports and experiences of Japanese explorer [[Naomi Uemura]], who reached the North Pole alone in 1978, to those of Peary and found they were consistent.<ref>{{Cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24447539 | first=Larry | last=Schweikart | authorlink=Larry Schweikart | title=Polar Revisionism and the Peary Claim: The Diary of Robert E. Peary | journal=The Historian | date=May 1986| volume=48 | issue=3 | pages=341–358 | doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1986.tb00698.x | jstor=24447539 }}</ref> However, Peary made no entries in the diary on the crucial days of April 6 and 7, 1909, and his famous words "The Pole at Last!", allegedly written in his diary at the pole, were written on loose slips of paper that were inserted into the diary.