Ivan Papanin – The first person at the North Pole?
Ivan Papanin was a Soviet polar explorer and led the expedition, in which people probably entered the North Pole for the first time in 1937.
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Alfred Wegener – The World Understander
Alfred Wegener was a meteorologist and polar and geoscientist. His most important contribution is his theory of continental shift.
Edith “Jackie” Ronne – a woman first (in Antarctica)
Edith “Jackie” Ronne was the first woman to take part in an Antarctic expedition with her husband Finn Ronne, to work there and overwinter.
Borchgrevink – First! (and third)
Carsten Borchgrevink was not the first person on the Antarctic continent. But the first one to overwinter there.
Frederick Albert Cook – Conqueror without Glory
Frederick Cook was a medical doctor. Cook accompanied Robert Peary on an expedition to Greenland. Later, they fought over the North Pole and its discovery.
