By the second half of the 19th century, British explorers had competition from Americans and Norwegians in the race to claim the North Pole. Nowhere was the contrast in expedition styles more evident than between British naval officer George Strong Nares and Norwegian adventurer Fridtjof Nansen. While Nares stuck to tradition, Nansen ushered in a new era of polar exploration that favored tested theories over wishful thinking, self-organization over government sponsorship, and minimalism over the idea that bigger was better. The international competition to be the first at the Pole was on.
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01/29/21 • 48 min
Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole - The Turning Point
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The Quest for the North Pole is a production of I Heart Radio and Mental Floss. It's June and Norwegian polar explorer fritch Off Nonson is waking up after another frigid night spent on Frontio's of Land. It's an uninhabited archipelago north of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean. With his assistant Yalmar Johansen still snoozing nearby, Nonsense starts a fire, tosses some meat into a pot to make soup, and climbs the top of Rocky Hill to admire the view
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