Mathew Henson was the co-discoverer of the North Pole along with Admiral Perry

When you think of history's great Arctic explorers, what names spring to mind? Ernest Shackleton? Robert Peary? How about Matthew Henson?

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Polar explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his chief aide Matthew A. Henson fathered sons by Inuit women on their travels in northern Greenland a century ago.