Answer the following about the disastrous Crocker Land Expedition, a 1913 journey to a non-existent island that took four years to rescue all members. For 10 points each:
[10m] The Crocker Land expedition was led by this explorer, who clashed with Frederick Cook over claiming to be the first to reach the North Pole. He also reached Cape Morris Jesup in northern Greenland.
ANSWER: Robert Peary [or Robert Edwin Peary Sr.]
[10e] This museum was the largest funder of the exhibition, as well as the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. This New York City museum was devised by Albert Bickmore and includes taxidermied elephants and a cast of Peking Man.
ANSWER: American Museum of Natural History [or AMNH]
[10h] The Crocker Land Exhibition launched from this location. The USS Monitor was built by the Continental Iron Works at this location, which also built Robert Fulton's Demologos warship.
ANSWER: Brooklyn Navy Yard [or New York Navy Yard; or Brooklyn Naval Shipyard; prompt on Brooklyn or Navy Yard or Naval Shipyard]
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