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One of a team of six that first reached the North Pole on April 6th, 1909. ... history considers him to have been first to reach the pole. ...
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_the_first_person_to_stand_on...
wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_the_first_person_to_stand_on_the_north_pole
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At the beginning of the twentieth century the North Pole beckoned as a challenge to explorers. Reaching the Pole was viewed as a measure of man's highest abilities, ... With the backing of the National Geographic Society, Peary succeeded in undermining Cook's claim, and he was generally credited with being the first to the Pole.
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www.museumofhoaxes.com/day/04_23_2001.html
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The first person to reach the North Pole was an engineer in the American Navy named Robert Edwin Peary, who reached the Pole on 6 April 1909, along with his employee Matthew Henson and four Inuit men named Seeglo, Ootah, Ooqueah, and Egigin...
http://www.wisegeek.com/who-was-the-first-person-to-rea...
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Who were the first humans to reach the North Pole? ... The only proof each man could offer were written records. In 1908 and 1909, there wasn't any other way to tell if either expedition had reached the Pole. Several times, scientific investigations have looked at the records.
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perrybear.com/reporter/peary
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Amundsen spoke, "...it is my intention to sail Southwards, land a party on the Southern continent and try to reach the South Pole". ... Together with Ellsworth, history was made when they flew the airship NORGE from Spitsbergen to Alaska via the North Pole. This was the first trans-Arctic flight right across the Pole.
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www.south-pole.com/p0000101.htm
www.south-pole.com/p0000101.htm
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Matthew Henson Memorial Website for co-discoverer of the North Pole with Robert Peary ... • To the North Pole with Matt & Peary! ; • 2008 Henson Home page...
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Short history from PBS. ... Exploring the Greenland ice cap in 1886, Robert Peary, on leave from his duties with the U.S. Navy, came to the conclusion that the North Pole lay beyond, and was not part of, Greenland. Peary had further decided that he would be the first man to reach the North Pole, the top of the world.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ice/sfeature/peary.html
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Northwinds' highly skilled men and their remarkable dogs have shown the armchair skeptics once and for all how to reach the North Pole. Forget skis, forget "man hauling", ... For example, when Herbert decided to claim himself as the first person to reach the North Pole he theorized Peary had drifted west of the Pole,
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pearyhenson.org/northpole1909/
pearyhenson.org/northpole1909/
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It has been 100 years since the New York Times announced that Robert E. Peary was the first man to reach the North Pole. But was he? ... Who should get credit for being the first person to reach the North Pole?
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blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/09/09/the-first-t...
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/09/09/the-first-to-reach-the-north-pole/
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