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North Pole

one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface

10 dated entries naming North Pole, drawn from 8 separate years between 1879 CE and 2021 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1879July 8 – Led by George W. De Long, the ill-fated United States Jeannette Expedition departs San Francisco, in an attempt to reach the North Pole, by pioneering a route through the Bering Strait.source

20th century

  • 1908April 21 – Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date.source
  • 1908July 6 – Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.source
  • 1909April 6 – Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and four Inuit explorers – Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo and Egigingwah – come within a few miles of the North Pole.source
  • 1926May 12 – Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over the North Pole, in the airship Norge.source
  • 1926May 9 – Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time. An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996, suggests that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.source
  • 1928May 24 – The airship Italia crashes at the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile. A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on May 30. Roald Amundsen will be among those who lose their lives in the search for survivors.source
  • 1958August 3 – The nuclear-powered submarine becomes the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water.source

21st century

  • 2007March 1 – The fourth International Polar Year, a $1.73 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.source
  • 2021June 10 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, and the Russian Far East.source

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