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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Cook has received more than 439,582 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 31 in 2019). Frederick Cook is the 137th most popular explorer (down from 100th in 2019), the 1,848th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,246th in 2019) and the 7th 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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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Frederick Cook ranks 137 out of 498. Before him are Adrien de Gerlache, Francisco Serrão, Juan de Grijalva, Vladimir Arsenyev, João Vaz Corte-Real, and Gil Eanes. After him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Andrés de Urdaneta, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Otto Sverdrup, Mikhail Lazarev, and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Frederick Cook ranks 47. Before him are Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Lala Lajpat Rai, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Princess Marie of Orléans, Wilfrid Voynich, and Abraham Isaac Kook. After him are Rainis, Charles Bally, Edith Cavell, Wilbur Scoville, Sabino Arana, and Jovan Cvijić. Among people deceased in 1940, Frederick Cook ranks 44. Before him are Gunnar Asplund, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, and Fusajiro Yamauchi. After him are Albin Lermusiaux, Édouard Claparède, Paul Nizan, Walter Chrysler, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, and Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Cook ranks 1,848 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Jordan (1948), Roger Corman (1926), Nora Roberts (1950), Joey Ramone (1951), Paul Desmond (1924), and Michael Bay (1965). After him are Tom Courtney (1933), Adelaide Hall (1901), Jasper Johns (1930), Joan Allen (1956), Loretta Young (1913), and Isamu Noguchi (1904).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Frederick Cook ranks 7. Before him are Richard E. Byrd (1888), Davy Crockett (1786), Hugh Glass (1783), Calamity Jane (1852), Michael Rockefeller (1938), and Sacagawea (1780). After him are Don Walsh (1931), Simon Fraser (1776), Jimmie Angel (1899), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), George W. De Long (1844), and Daniel Boone (1734).

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