Major Arctic Expeditions
The Quest for a Northwest
Passage
U.S.S. Sargo Reaches
the North Pole
on February 9, 1960
Project Lead Dog
looking for safe routes across the Arctic
Matthew Alexander Henson
the first man to reach the Nole Pole
Robert Edwin Peary
leader of the first "land" expedition
to the North Pole
Pictures from Robert Peary's
Expedition to the North Pole
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Antarctic Treaty
Richard Evelyn Byrd
establisher of the first scientific base in
Antarctica and one of the first to fly to the
South Pole and back
Robert Falcon Scott
Antarctic explorer
Plant Life in the
Antarctic
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