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Frederick Cook

1865 - 1940

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Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed; in December 1909, after reviewing Cook's limited records, a commission of the University of Copenhagen ruled his claim unproven. Nonetheless, in 1911, Cook published a memoir of the expedition in which he maintained the veracity of his assertions. In addition, he also claimed to have been the first person to reach the summit of Denali (also known as Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America, a claim which has since been similarly discredited. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Cook is the 133rd most popular explorer (up from 137th in 2019), the 1,946th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,848th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Explorer.

Frederick Cook was a famous explorer who was most famous for claiming to be the first person to reach the North Pole.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Frederick Cook ranks 133 out of 498. Before him are Pedro de Mendoza, Pánfilo de Narváez, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Juan de Grijalva, Sebastián de Belalcázar, and Mary Kingsley. After him are Andrés de Urdaneta, Mikhail Lazarev, João Vaz Corte-Real, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, George W. De Long, and Philip Johan von Strahlenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Frederick Cook ranks 45. Before him are Gérard Encausse, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Duan Qirui, Ernst Troeltsch, Nikola Zhekov, and Valentin Serov. After him are Yvette Guilbert, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Rainis, Rafael Merry del Val, Sabino Arana, and Princess Marie of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1940, Frederick Cook ranks 38. Before him are Katharina Schratt, Édouard Vuillard, Vsevolod Meyerhold, John A. Hobson, Robert Hichens, and Michael Hainisch. After him are Nicolae Iorga, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, Gunnar Asplund, Marcus Garvey, Walter Chrysler, and Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Cook ranks 1,946 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Wieman (1951), Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817), Nora Roberts (1950), Helen Hayes (1900), June Carter Cash (1929), and George Dantzig (1914). After him are Juliet Anderson (1938), Barbara Bach (1947), Mario Lanza (1921), Kenneth Waltz (1924), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), and Robert B. Laughlin (1950).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Frederick Cook ranks 10. Before him are Davy Crockett (1786), Sacagawea (1780), Calamity Jane (1852), Hugh Glass (1783), Michael Rockefeller (1938), and Chris McCandless (1968). After him are George W. De Long (1844), Simon Fraser (1776), Don Walsh (1931), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Jimmie Angel (1899), and Louise Arner Boyd (1887).

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