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| 1929 |
| | | US explorer Richard E. Byrd and two companions make the first flight over the South Pole, in a Ford Tri-Motor | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Thor Heyerdahl sets sail across the Pacific from Peru in a balsa wood boat, the Kon-Tiki | |
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| 1953 |
| | | New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stand together on the top of Everest | |
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| 1958 |
| | | A Commonwealth team, led by Vivian Fuchs, completes the first overland crossing of Antarctica | |
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