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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 412,903 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Frederick Cook is the 101st most popular explorer (down from 77th in 2019), the 1,246th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,007th in 2019) and the 6th 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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  • 60.62

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Frederick Cook ranks 101 out of 405. Before him are Gonzalo Pizarro, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Willem Schouten, Ferdinand Columbus, Mary Kingsley, and Cosmas Indicopleustes. After him are Pánfilo de Narváez, Bartholomew Columbus, Carsten Niebuhr, Sacagawea, Pêro da Covilhã, and Martín Alonso Pinzón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Frederick Cook ranks 35. Before him are Mikao Usui, Wilfrid Voynich, Valentin Serov, Rashid Rida, Gabriel Narutowicz, and Gérard Encausse. After him are Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Charles G. Dawes, Ernst Troeltsch, Duan Qirui, and Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke. Among people deceased in 1940, Frederick Cook ranks 32. Before him are Vsevolod Meyerhold, Arthur Harden, Lluís Companys, Eugène Dubois, Kyösti Kallio, and Katharina Schratt. After him are Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Vito Volterra, Édouard Vuillard, Walter Chrysler, Gunnar Asplund, and Michael Hainisch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frederick Cook ranks 1,246 out of 18,182. Before him are Fredric Brown (1906), George Akerlof (1940), Jim Lovell (1928), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Geena Davis (1956), and Marisa Tomei (1964). After him are Rene Russo (1954), Robert Englund (1947), Duff McKagan (1964), Stonewall Jackson (1824), Mark Ruffalo (1967), and Jacque Fresco (1916).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Frederick Cook ranks 6. Before him are Hugh Glass (1783), Michael Rockefeller (1938), Davy Crockett (1786), Calamity Jane (1852), and Richard E. Byrd (1888). After him are Sacagawea (1780), Jim Bridger (1804), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Don Walsh (1931), Jimmie Angel (1899), and George W. De Long (1844).

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