# Peary

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**Peary** may refer to:

## People

### Last name

- [Danny Peary](/source/Danny_Peary) (born 1949), American film critic and sports writer
- [Gerald Peary](/source/Gerald_Peary) (born 1944), American film critic
- [Harold Peary](/source/Harold_Peary) (1908–1985), American actor, comedian and singer
- [Josephine Diebitsch Peary](/source/Josephine_Diebitsch_Peary) (1863–1955), American author and arctic explorer, wife of Robert Peary
- [Marie Ahnighito Peary](/source/Marie_Ahnighito_Peary) (1893–1978), American author, daughter of Robert Peary
- [Robert Peary](/source/Robert_Peary) (1856–1920), American explorer

### First name

- [Peary Chand Mitra](/source/Peary_Chand_Mitra) (1814–1883), Indian author and journalist
- [Peary Rader](/source/Peary_Rader) (1909–1991), American early bodybuilder, Olympic lifter, writer, and magazine publisher
- [Peary Charan Sarkar](/source/Peary_Charan_Sarkar) (1823–1875), pioneer in women's education in Bengal

### Middle name

- [Benjamin Peary Pal](/source/Benjamin_Peary_Pal) (1906–1989), Indian plant breeder and agronomist

## Locations

### Canada

- [Peary Bay](/source/Peary_Bay), in Nunavut
- [Peary Channel](/source/Peary_Channel), a waterway in Nunavut

### Greenland

- [Cape Peary](/source/Cape_Peary), a headland in northwestern Greenland
- [Mary Peary Peaks](/source/Mary_Peary_Peaks), a mountain in northern Greenland
- [Peary Channel (Greenland)](/source/Peary_Channel_(Greenland)), a hypothetical sound in Northern Greenland
- [Peary Glacier](/source/Peary_Glacier), a glacier in western Greenland
- [Peary Land](/source/Peary_Land), a peninsula in northern Greenland
- [Peary Nunatak](/source/Peary_Nunatak), a nunatak in eastern Greenland

### United States

- [Admiral Peary Vocational-Technical School](/source/Admiral_Peary_Vocational-Technical_School), in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
- [Peary, Minnesota](/source/Peary,_Minnesota), an unincorporated community in Saint Louis County
- [Peary, Virginia](/source/Peary,_Virginia), an unincorporated community in Mathews County
- [Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum](/source/Peary%E2%80%93MacMillan_Arctic_Museum), in Brunswick, Maine

### Elsewhere

- [Mount Peary](/source/Mount_Peary), a massif in Antarctic
- [Peary (crater)](/source/Peary_(crater)), the closest large lunar impact crater to the lunar north pole

## Ships

- *[Maersk Peary](/source/Maersk_Peary)*, a Norway-registered tanker landed in 2004
- [SS *Robert E. Peary*](/source/SS_Robert_E._Peary), an American "Liberty ship" launched in 1942
- [USS *Robert E. Peary*](/source/USS_Robert_E._Peary), or variants thereof, several ships of the United States Navy

## Other

- [Peary Arctic Club](/source/Peary_Arctic_Club), American-based club that promoted the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary
- [Peary caribou](/source/Peary_caribou), a caribou subspecies in Canada
- [Peary Polar Expedition Medal](/source/Peary_Polar_Expedition_Medal), authorized by the United States Congress in 1944
- [Camp Peary](/source/Camp_Peary), a U.S. military reservation and Central Intelligence Agency facility in Virginia

## See also

- [Pari (disambiguation)](/source/Pari_(disambiguation))
- [John Perie](/source/John_Perie)
- [Perrie](/source/Perrie)
- [Perry](/source/Perry), an alcoholic beverage made of fermented pear juice
- [Perry (disambiguation)](/source/Perry_(disambiguation))
- [Pery](/source/Pery)

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