Villa Medici in Rome Painting by Diego Velazquez

Before this discovery, there were many wrong notions about the earth. It was imagined that the earth might be having many poles and people could hardly visualize that there existed some areas which experienced the nights for continuously 24 hours.

Many people before Robert had gone on an expedition to the North Pole, but had failed. Robert was the first one to discover the North Pole.

Robert E. Perry was born in America in 1856. He was intelligent as well as a good sportsman. He did engineering and then became an officer in the American Navy.