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Among those pictured is American Robert Edwin Peary, a former Navy commander turned explorer, who claimed to be first to the North Pole, though this has now been largely discredited.
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With winter taking hold of the Northern Hemisphere, many of us are wondering if our watches are up to the task of skiing, ice fishing, or the odd snowball fight on the frigid tundras of Minneapolis or Manhattan. Perhaps the best way to address this important question is to look to some people who have tested their own timepieces in harsher environs than those where most of us will be snapping Instagram wrist shots. So without further ado, here is a brief listing of some famous polar explorers, and the watches they wore.
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Meeting of polar explorers. Nuclear-powered icebreaker and ice-class research vessel. Author |Credit 🎥: @makhorov
Some people pass the long winter months of isolation at McMurdo Station trying to learn a new language. Matthew Nelson has turned a keen interest in polar history into a project to document and research the explorers who once scribbled their names on the wooden walls of an iconic structure that dates back more than century.
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On Monday, 32-year-old British army officer and physiotherapist Preet Chandi became the first woman of color to complete an unsupported expedition to the South Pole. Chandi, who traveled 700 miles in 40 days, undertook the journey despite knowing little about Antarctica in order to inspire other women of color to pursue their goals. "This expedition…
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