Stuff to mention in a polar exporation overview
- Hudson and Baffin the northwest passage seekers
- Byrd and his flyovers
- The Nautilus surfacing at the pole
- the Manhattan (tanker icebreaker) doing a northwest passage traversal
- the IGY International Geophysical year in 1957? with a lot of antarctic stuff
- McMurdo Base
- Shackleton expedition (this is polar exploration writ large, but Shackleton's story is the most widely known today)
- Crossings of both on foot, sledge, dog teams, etc. Maybe a section of different methods of polar travel
- Mountain climbing in Antarctica
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Great start!--Brad Patrick 04:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)