Talk:Polar exploration

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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

Great start!--Brad Patrick 04:42, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Early exploration

There should be a section regarding early polar exploration with regards to the search for the northeast, then northwest passages. Bastiq▼e ^demandez