
OOur heritage is the vast knowledge of our past. It teaches us what is possible and makes us develop and refine our achievements. The explorers of the poles erased the last white spots on the map, and through their heroic adventures we gained a fuller understanding of the planet we live on. The first controlled flight took off from Paris in 1852;
a dirigible invented by Henri Giffard flew 27 km using a steam engine and a vertical rudder. Pioneers of aviation then developed both lighter than air and heavier than air. The Wright brothers managed to perform the first controlled, sustained, heavier than air flight, in late 1903 in North Carolina. Aviation has made a vast difference in exploring planet Earth.
The Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen with his ship Fram tried to reach the North Pole in his expedition.
Read moreA. Andrée’s Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a Swedish expedition for the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished.
Read moreThe Italian Prince Luigi Amedeo setup an expedition towards the North Pole. In the spring he arrived in the Norwegian capital Christiania (the present day Oslo) with 10 companions.
Read moreFrederick Albert Cook planned to attempt to reach the North Pole, although he did not announce his intention until August 1907, when he was already in the Arctic.
Read moreRobert Edwin Peary’s final attempt on the Pole, together with 23 men, including Ross Gilmore Marvin, set off from New York City on July 6th, 1908 aboard the SS Roosevelt under the command of Captain Robert Bartlett.
Read moreThe America was a non-rigid airship built by Mutin Godard, in France, in 1906 for the journalist Walter Wellman’s attempt to reach the North Pole by air.
Read moreRear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and loyal advocate of airships, was discussing the possibility of using Shenandoah to explore the Arctic.
Read moreThe Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, and three other team members used two Dornier seaplanes in his unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole in 1925.
Read moreOn May 9th, 1926, Byrd and Navy Chief Aviation Pilot, Floyd Bennett, attempted a flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F.VIIa/3m Tri-motor monoplane named Josephine Ford, after the daughter of Ford Motor Company president Edsel Ford, who helped finance the expedition.
Read moreThe Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole and likely the first verified overflight on 12th May 1926.
Read moreAirship Italia was a semi-rigid airship used by Italian engineer Umberto Nobile in his second series of flights around the North Pole.
Read moreGraf Zeppelin’s 1931 Arctic Flight was both a scientific expedition and a dramatic display of the airship’s ability under extreme conditions.
Read moreValery Chkalov and two others flew a Tupolev ANT-25 on June 18–20, 1937 from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington as the world’s first transpolar flight crossing over the North Pole in an airplane.
Read moreThe first landing at the North Pole and the first men, which has been confirmed, to stand on North Pole was the three planes of the Soviet Union Sever-2 expedition of 24 scientists and flight crew led by Aleksandr Kuznetsov.
The extraordinary voyages of the USS Skate, where Commander James F. Calvert, said “Seldom had the ice seemed so heavy and so thick as it did in the immediate vicinity of the pole.
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