Frederick A. Cook (1865-1940)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Gibbons, Russell W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Biographies; Cook; Frederick Albert; 1865-1940; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Canadian Arctic Islands; Canadian Arctic Islands waters; North Pole; Arctic; Cape Stallworthy; Devon Island; Greenland; Heiberg; Patience; Peary; Rudolph; eskimo*; North Greenland; polar night; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65351

. Cook caught th polar wanderlust only a year after his graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York University in 1890, . First going north with the young naval civil engineer Robert E. Peary on his North Greenland Expedition in 1891, Cook earned Peary's praise for "...