Polar exploration firsts

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The north and south poles are two of the most difficult places on Earth to reach and so have been great challenges for explorers. These are some of the people who reached the poles by one means or another

First to reach the north pole

American adventurer Frederick Albert cook (1865-1940) claimed he and two Eskimo companions reached the north pole on 21 April 1908, but he probably faked his journey. Another American, Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), his companion Mathew Alexander Henson (1866-1955) and four Eskimos were first at the pole on 6 April 1909

First to reach the south pole

Norwegain explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) and four companions reached the south Pole on 14 December 1911. They just beat British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his team, who got there on 17 January 1912 but died on their return journey.

First to fly over the north pole and south pole

Two Americans, Richard Evelyn Byrd and Floyd Bennett, flew over the North Pole on 9 may 1926 in a three engined Fokker. F.VIII 3m plane name Josephine Ford After motor magnate Henry Ford's granddaughter. Ford had given some of the money to fund the flight. On 29 November 1929, Byrud also became the first person to fly over the south pole.

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