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August 3, 1958. First to reach North Pole by surface travel (on Ski-Doo): Ralph Plaisted. April 19, 1968. First to reach the North Pole by dogsled: team led by Sir Wally Herbert. 1968-69. First surface ship to reach North Pole: nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika (Soviet Union). August 17, 1977.
He is best known for his participation in the 1908–1909 expedition that claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson said he was the first of their party to reach the North Pole. Henson was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, to sharecropper parents who were free Black Americans before the Civil War.
It is also said that Herbert was the first person to reach the pole of inaccessibility. [37] Soviet icebreaker Arktika, the first surface ship to reach the North Pole, 1977. On 17 August 1977 the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika completed the first surface vessel journey to the North Pole.
Byrd claimed to be the first to reach both the North and South Poles by air. However, there is some controversy as to whether or not Byrd was actually the first person to reach the North Pole. It is generally believed that the distance Byrd claimed to fly was longer than the possible fuel range of his airplane. [2] [3]
Robert Peary and sledge party with flags at North Pole. Peary has been claimed to be the first person to reach the North Pole. On April 6, 1909, Robert Peary claimed to be the first person in recorded history to reach the North Pole [27] (although whether he actually reached the Pole is disputed).
In 1944, Congress recognized Matthew Henson as the first person to reach the North Pole. That was followed in 1968 by a scientific expedition that verified Henson’s claim. Twenty years later, a ...
As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958. He subsequently reached the North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and summit Everest. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. [3]
[27] [28] If these other claims are false, the crew of the Norge would be the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole, when they floated over it in the Norge in 1926. [5] [26] If the Norge expedition was the first to the North Pole, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting were the first men to have reached both geographical poles, by ground ...