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The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole .
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.
Thayer was raised on a farm at Whitford, near Howick outside Auckland, New Zealand and attended Pukekohe High School.Sir Edmund Hillary was a friend of her parents, Ray and Margaret Nicholson, and at the age of 9 she and her parents climbed Mount Taranaki with Hillary; she later said that this experience inspired her to explore mountaineering and the outdoors.
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The Inventio Fortunata, a lost book, describes in a summary written by Jacobus Cnoyen but only found in a letter from Gerardus Mercator, voyages as far as the North Pole. [16] One widely disputed claim is that two brothers from Venice , Niccolo and Antonio Zeno , allegedly made a map of their journeys to that region, which were published by ...
Ralph Summers Plaisted [1] (September 30, 1927 – September 8, 2008) was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on April 19, 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole.
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Polar exploration is the process of exploration of the polar regions of Earth – the Arctic region and Antarctica – particularly with the goal of reaching the North Pole and South Pole, respectively. Historically, this was accomplished by explorers making often arduous travels on foot or by sled in these regions, known as a polar expedition.