Editing Robert Peary (section)

==Honors==
{{more citations needed|section|date=April 2017}}
Medals
* American Geographical Society, [[Cullum Geographical Medal]] (1896)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://americangeo.org/honors/medals-and-awards/cullum-geographical-medal/ | title=CULLUM GEOGRAPHICAL MEDAL | publisher=[[American Geographical Society]]}}</ref>
* American Geographical Society, [[Charles P. Daly Medal]] (1902)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://americangeo.org/honors/medals-and-awards/charles-p-daly-medal/ | title=CHARLES P. DALY MEDAL | publisher=[[American Geographical Society]]}}</ref>
* National Geographic Society, [[Hubbard Medal]] (1906)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/events/awards/hubbard/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914170715/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/events/awards/hubbard/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 14, 2021 | title=HUBBARD MEDAL | publisher=[[National Geographic]]}}</ref>
* Royal Geographical Society of London, special great gold medal
* National Geographic Society of Washington, the special great gold medal
* [[Geographical Society of Philadelphia]], great gold medal
* Chicago Geographical Society, Helen Culver medal
* Imperial German Geographical Society, Nachtigall gold medal
* Royal Italian Geographical Society, King Humbert gold medal
* Imperial Austrian Geographical Society
* Hungarian Geographical Society gold medal
* Royal Belgian Geographical Society gold medal
* Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp gold medal
* [[Spanish Campaign Medal]]

Honorary degrees
* Bowdoin College – Doctor of laws
* Edinburgh University – Doctor of laws

Honorary memberships
* New York Chamber of Commerce honorary member.
* Pennsylvania Society Honorary member
* Manchester Geographical Society Honorary membership
* Royal Netherlands Geographical Society of Amsterdam Honorary membership<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1ugAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA365 | title=The North Pole: its discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic club | first=Robert Edwin | last=Peary | publisher=[[Frederick A. Stokes]] | year=1910}}</ref>

Other
* Royal Scottish Geographical Society, special trophy, a replica in silver of the ships used by Hudson, Baffin, and Davis.
* Grand Officer of the [[Legion of Honor]], awarded 1913<ref>{{Cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2560855 | title=Memoir of Robert Edwin Peary | first=William Herbert | last=Hobbs | journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers | year=1921 | volume=11 | pages=93–108 | doi=10.1080/00045602109357023 | jstor=2560855 | authorlink=William Herbert Hobbs}}</ref>
* In Arlington National Cemetery on April 6, 1922, the Admiral Robert Edwin Peary monument was unveiled by his daughter, Mrs. Marie Peary Stafford.<ref>{{cite news | title=Dignitaries of the Nation Brave Rain to Honor Peary | url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-04-07/ed-1/seq-15/ | work=[[The Washington Times]] |date=April 7, 1922}}</ref> Numerous government officials, including [[President Harding]] and Former [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] [[Edwin Denby (politician)|Edwin Denby]] were in attendance.
* On May 28, 1986, the [[United States Postal Service]] issued a 22 cent [[postage stamp]] in his and Matthew Henson's honor.<ref name=postal/>