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Henson served as a navigator and craftsman, and was known as Peary's "first man". Like Peary, he studied Inuit survival techniques. During their 1908–09 expedition to Greenland, Henson was one of the six men – including Peary and four Inuit assistants – who claimed to have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole.
2012 – Felicity Aston becomes the first person to ski alone across Antarctica using only personal muscle power, as well as the first woman to cross Antarctica alone. [37] [38] Her journey began on 25 November 2011, at the Leverett Glacier, and continued for 59 days and a distance of 1,744 km (1,084 mi). [39]
Ice floes in the Southern Ocean. Ui-te-Rangiora or Hui Te Rangiora is a legendary Polynesian navigator who sailed to the Southern Ocean and is sometimes claimed to have discovered Antarctica in the early seventh century on the vessel Te Ivi o Atea. [1]
The first women to have any fanfare about their Antarctic journeys were Caroline Mikkelsen who set foot on an island of Antarctica in 1935, [144] and Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington who were the first women to over-winter in Antarctica in 1947. [145] The first woman scientist to work in Antarctica was Maria Klenova in 1956. [146] Silvia ...
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The professor, who also had an established career in medical research, took part in the treacherous 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Left to right: Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting after first reaching the South Pole on 16 December 1911. The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians ...
Michael Myers was named after a real person that Carpenter and Hill both knew. As Hill explained in the 2003 documentary Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest, the real-life Myers was the distributor ...