Matthew Henson
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Matthew Alexander Henson was an American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together.
Henson c. 1910
Henson in his Arctic furs
Photograph of Henson and the four Inuit guides on the last stretch of their 1908–09 expedition, taken by Peary at what they believed to be the North Pole.
Illustration of Matthew Henson by Charles Alston
Nanjemoy, Maryland
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Nanjemoy is a settlement along Maryland Route 6 in southwestern Charles County, Maryland, United States, and the surrounding large rural area more or less bounded by Nanjemoy Creek to the east and nor
Matthew Henson
…reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson later said that he was the first of their party to reach the North Pole. Henson was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, to sharecropper parents who were free Black Americans before the Civil War. He spent most of his early life in Washington, D.C., but left school at…
Great blue herons at a nest
Fossil specimens of a Turritella snail