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Richard Evelyn Byrd |
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| On May 9, 1926, American explorer Richard Byrd flew over the North Pole in a plane piloted by Floyd Bennett. The men began their journey in Spitsbergen (now Svalbard), a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Taken in Spitsbergen before the flight, this photograph shows Byrd holding a specially designed helmet. | ||||||
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