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22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

The early Arctic and Antarctic expeditions were daring, deadly, and cold.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 6 months ago in Wow

The early Arctic and Antarctic expeditions were daring, deadly, and cold. Nonetheless, humans have an obsessive drive to explore the unknown, and in the early 1900s, multiple expeditions set out to be the first to reach the North and South Poles. A few succeeded, and many more did not. 


Here are 22 frigid photos from those original expeditions. 

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    1909 Photo of Frederick Cook in arctic gear. Possibly the first person (alongside the rest of his expedition) to reach the geographical North Pole in 1908.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    Robert Peary at the North Pole cheering the 'Stars and Stripes'. Peary was an American explorer, and claimed to be the first to have reached the geographic North Pole. Peary's claim was certified by the National Geographic Society, a major sponsor of his expedition, 1909. However, it was never independently verified. Nobody would replicate his alleged feat by foot until 1968.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    The ill-fated S. A. Andree Arctic Balloon Expedition departs Danes Island, Svalbard, on July 11, 1897.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    S. A. Andrée and Knut Frænkel with their crashed balloon on the pack ice during the Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    The 'Fram' in the ice. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893-1896 was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole, Arctic 1896.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    11 cleaned up images from Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1908. Aiming to be the first men to reach the South Pole, the "Nimrod Expedition" got within just over 100 miles of it. They were funded only with private loans, and were less well equipped than their contemporaries. Three years later other groups did reach the South Pole, but Shackleton's efforts were well respected.

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    Robert Falcon Scott reaching the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had gotten there first due to the Norwegian flag being planted. 17th of January, 1912.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    Herbert Ponting and telephoto apparatus. Ponting was the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913, to the Ross Sea and South Pole. Antarctica, 1912.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    The Byrd Arctic Expedition, Spitzbergen, Svalbard 1927.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    Bob Bartlett and local inhabitant aboard ship during Bartlett's Arctic Expedition, 1933.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    The USS Sennet on Operation “Highjump,” the third Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1947.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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    The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition hits a snag in 1957.

    22 Ice Cold Photos To Help You Re-live the Original Arctic Expeditions

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