Peary
# Peary

Peary may refer to:

## People

### Last name

* Danny Peary (born 1949), American film critic and sports writer
* Gerald Peary (born 1944), American film critic
* Harold Peary (1908–1985), American actor, comedian and singer
* Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863–1955), American author and arctic explorer, wife of Robert Peary
* Robert Peary (1856–1920), American explorer

### First name

* Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883), Indian author and journalist
* Peary Rader (1909–1991), American early bodybuilder, Olympic lifter, writer, and magazine publisher
* Peary Charan Sarkar (1823–1875), pioneer in women's education in Bengal

### Middle name

* Benjamin Peary Pal (1906–1989), Indian plant breeder and agronomist

## Locations

### Canada

* Peary Bay, in Nunavut
* Peary Channel, a waterway in Nunavut

### Greenland

* Cape Peary, a headland in northwestern Greenland
* Mary Peary Peaks, a mountain in northern Greenland
* Peary Channel (Greenland), a hypothetical sound in Northern Greenland
* Peary Glacier, a glacier in western Greenland
* Peary Land, a peninsula in northern Greenland
* Peary Nunatak, a nunatak in eastern Greenland

### United States

* Admiral Peary Vocational-Technical School, in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
* Peary, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in Saint Louis County
* Peary, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mathews County
* Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, in Brunswick, Maine

### Elsewhere

* Mount Peary, a massif in Antarctic
* Peary (crater), the closest large lunar impact crater to the lunar north pole

## Ships

* Maersk Peary, a Norway-registered tanker landed in 2004
* SS Robert E. Peary, an American "Liberty ship" launched in 1942
* USS Robert E. Peary, or variants thereof, several ships of the United States Navy

## Other

* Peary Arctic Club, American-based club that promoted the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary
* Peary caribou, a caribou subspecies in Canada
* Peary Polar Expedition Medal, authorized by the United States Congress in 1944
* Camp Peary, a U.S. military reservation and Central Intelligence Agency facility in Virginia
