Peary Did Not Reach the Pole! Most Shameful!

Admiral Peary, it appears, fraudulently claimed to have reached the Pole.   Byrd's flight claim is heavily disputed. Which means it was Amundsen, of course, who reached it in 1926 in the airship Norge with sponsor Ellsworth and pilot Nobile.

Note the very interesting side study about a recent study of "counterfactual belief," which, if you look at the PDF, provides a fascinating pie chart of why people still believed that Sadaam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. I strongly suspect this whole article was written to slip that in.

Jolly well done, Roald Amundsen!

Snowmachines made the journey in 1968. Somehow this cheapens it. It wasn't until 1969 that someone actually got there going the whole way on the surface of the ice on foot -Sir Walter Herbert- who then proceed to cross the Arctic Ocean.