FRIDTJOF NANSEN · SIR ERNEST H. SHACKLETON DUKE OF THE ABRUZZI · ROALD AMUNDSEN ROBERT E. PEARY · ROBERT FALCON SCOTT Ten years ago many, perhaps the majority, of intelligent people doubted if the Poles of the earth would ever be reached by man. From east to west, and west to east, the world seemed small. Jules Verne’s “Round the World in Eighty Days” dream of not so many years ago had been cut in two; but from north to south the world still stretched in apparently unattainable infinity.…
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