Historical place archive

North Pole in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at North Pole in New Zealand. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1985–1985

Historical events in North Pole

1985

1985
Discovery of North Pole
Edmund Percival Hillary · Exploration and Discovery

Accompanies Neil Armstrong in a small twin-engined ski plane over the Arctic Ocean and lands at the North Pole becoming the first man to stand at both poles and on the summit of Everest

Provenance

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