Peary

American explorers discovered the North Pole later than you might think: It wasn’t until 1909 that Admiral Robert Peary became the first person to plant a flag in the Arctic frost.

On Saturday afternoon, nearly 100 adults — all former students of Peary High — climbed aboard a yellow Montgomery County school bus and set off for Gibbs’s house.

The DNA, found locked in sediments in a region called Peary Land at the farthest northern reaches of Greenland, shows what life was like in a much warmer period in Earth’s history.

The researchers extracted and sequenced DNA from 41 organic-rich sediment samples obtained from five sites on the Peary Land peninsula jutting into the Arctic Ocean.

Despite the best efforts of Captain Bartlett, whom the legendary polar explorer Robert Peary called “the world’s greatest living ice navigator,” the Karluk could not escape.