English: President Warren G. Harding attends the unveiling of the Admiral Robert Edwin Peary monument in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States, on April 6, 1922.

U.S. Navy Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, accompanied by African American explorer Matthew Alexander Henson, were the first non-Eskimos to reach the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. (Four Eskimos were with them: Ooqueah, Ootah, Egingwah, and Seegloo.)

Peary died on on February 20, 1920, and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Section 3, Lot 1853-B. Due to the limited amount of space in this section, Peary was reinterred in Section 8, Special Lot S-15 -- which is where his body lies in 2013.

Peary himself designed the memorial. It consists of a square concrete foundation, a smaller granite foundation, an irregular octagonal pediment, and bronze clawed feet on which is a 6 foot wide granite globe. The globe is tilted so that the geographic North Pole faces due north. A three inch wide bronze star marks the pole. The globe is of white granite quarried in Maine. The smaller sides of the octagonal base are inscribed with bas-relief seals of the United States Navy. On the front of the octagonal base is a dedication to Peary. On the rear is the Latin inscription "Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam" ("I shall find a way or make one"). On the right-hand side is carved his wife's name and biograpical information.

The memorial was unveiled on April 6, 1922.