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schopenhauer The 1909 Three Poles Race
To the edge! (To the edge!) To the ice and the sky, We are racing to the edge!
schopenhauer French aviator Louis Blériot became the first person to fly a monoplane across the English Channel.
schopenhauer Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition came closer to the South Pole than anyone before, turning back just 97 miles short.
schopenhauer Match 1909 trivia to discover how explorers raced to the edges of the Earth.
Polar postal service: In 1909, Ernest Shackleton was appointed as a temporary postmaster by New Zealand, establishing a tiny, temporary post office in Antarctica.
Either of the two points on the earth's surface that mark the ends of its axis of rotation. In April 1909, American explorer Robert Peary claimed to have successfully reached the geographic North Pole.
Which country's government appointed Ernest Shackleton as a postmaster for Antarctica?