Editing Robert Peary (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Robert Peary monument at Cape York, Greenland.jpg|thumb|upright=1|alt=Photograph of the Peary monument at Cape York, Greenland | Peary monument at [[Cape York, Greenland|Cape York]], northwest [[Greenland]]]]
Several United States Navy ships have been named {{USS|Robert E. Peary}}. The [[Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum]] at Bowdoin College is named for Peary and fellow Arctic explorer [[Donald Baxter MacMillan]]. Robert E. Peary Middle School in Gardena, CA, and Robert E. Peary High School in Rockvile, MD, were named after him. In 1986, the [[United States Postal Service]] issued a 22-cent postage stamp in honor of Peary and Henson;<ref name=postal>{{Cite web | url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/the-black-experience/exploration-matthew-henson | title=Exploration: Matthew Henson | publisher=[[National Postal Museum]]}}</ref>

[[Peary Land]], [[Peary Glacier]], [[Peary Nunatak]] and [[Cape Peary]] in Greenland, [[Peary Bay]] and [[Peary Channel]] in [[Canada]], as well as [[Mount Peary]] in Antarctica, are named in his honor. The lunar crater [[Peary (crater)|Peary]], located at the Moon's north pole, is also named after him.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4627 | title=Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Peary on Moon | publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]}}</ref>

[[Camp Peary]] in York County, Virginia is named for Admiral Peary. Originally established as a Navy [[Seabee]] training center during World War II, it was repurposed in the 1950s as a [[Central Intelligence Agency]] training facility. It is commonly called "The Farm".

Admiral Peary Vocational Technical School, located in a neighboring community very close to his birthplace of Cresson, PA, was named for him and was opened in 1972. Today the school educates over 600 students each year in numerous technical education disciplines.

A section of [[U.S. Route 22]] in [[Cambria County, Pennsylvania]], is named the Admiral Peary Highway

Major General [[Adolphus Greely]], leader of the ill-fated [[Lady Franklin Bay Expedition]] from 1881 to 1884, noted that no Arctic expert questioned that Peary courageously risked his life traveling hundreds of miles from land, and that he reached regions adjacent to the pole. After initial acceptance of Peary's claim, he later came to doubt Peary's having reached 90°.

In his book ''Ninety Degrees North'', polar historian Fergus Fleming describes Peary as "undoubtedly the most driven, possibly the most successful and probably the most unpleasant man in the annals of polar exploration".<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news-the-race-to-the-north-pole-6600156/ | title=The race to the North Pole and a controversy that has yet to thaw | first=MICK | last=O'HARE | work=[[The New European]] | date=December 19, 2020}}</ref>

In 1932, an expedition was made by Robert Bartlett and Marie Ahnighito Peary Stafford, Peary's daughter, on the ''[[Effie M. Morrissey]]'' to erect a monument to Peary at [[Cape York, Greenland]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/exhibits/2004/peary-monument.html | title=Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Exhibition: Building the Peary Monument | publisher=[[Bowdoin College]]}}</ref>