biography
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| lived:
| (1880–1951)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He helped survey the route for the Canadian transcontinental railway (1902), and led a surveying expedition across the Andes (1924). He made the first trans-Arctic crossing in the airship Norge with Umberto Nobile, and in 1935 the first flight across Antarctica. He claimed for the USA some of the territory he flew over, Ellsworth Mountains and American Highland, an area of almost a million square kilometres. |
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