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By 1900 the North and South Poles were widely regarded as the last vestiges of ‘the unknown’ and various explorers, lured for reasons of science, national pride and personal glory, set their sights on being the first to ‘conquer’ these inhospitable spaces. Photography played a central role in representing these expeditions to expectant audiences at home. American admiral Robert E. Peary (1856–1920), for example, an accomplished Arctic explorer, took Donald B. 20 On 6 April 1909 the party reached a position determined by Peary to be the North Pole, whereupon they planted the Stars and Stripes and recorded their achievement with a camera (illus.
In 1929 a Norwegian expedition explored and photographed Dronning Maud Land in north Antarctica from the air. In 1938–9 a German expedition visited the same area and, using two flying boats launched by catapult from the Lufthansa-sponsored ship Schwabenland, made the first systematic aerial photographic survey of Dronning Maud Land, mapping an area of some 250,000 square kilometers. The expedition blended 55 24 Unknown photographer, ‘The Interior of the Airship. Arduino inspects the petrol tank’, from Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, The First Flight Across the Polar Sea (London, 1926).
In 1929 a Norwegian expedition explored and photographed Dronning Maud Land in north Antarctica from the air. In 1938–9 a German expedition visited the same area and, using two flying boats launched by catapult from the Lufthansa-sponsored ship Schwabenland, made the first systematic aerial photographic survey of Dronning Maud Land, mapping an area of some 250,000 square kilometers. The expedition blended 55 24 Unknown photographer, ‘The Interior of the Airship. Arduino inspects the petrol tank’, from Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, The First Flight Across the Polar Sea (London, 1926).