The nuclear powered American submarine USS Nautilus crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans submerged under the Arctic ice. It passed over the North Pole on August 3.
Umberto Nobile and 17 other men flew to the North Pole from Spitsbergen on the airship Italia. On the flight back to Spitsbergen the airship crashed, by the time a rescue party arrived half of the party had died or were missing. Tragically Roald Amundsen, who was on...
Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Umberto Nobile and 13 other people flew in a dirigible from Spitzbergen and reached the North Pole on May 12, 1926, three days after Byrd. They continued on to Alaska after a flight of 3,300 miles.
Lt. Commander Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew the first airplane to the North Pole on May 9, 1926, a roundtrip from Spitsbergen to the Pole and back. Byrd’s claim was verified by the National Geographic Society, Air Force master navigator and flight instructor Lt....
