Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress · Public domain · Source
Norwegian polar explorer, first to sail the Northwest Passage and, on 14 December 1911, the first person to reach the South Pole; lost in the Arctic in 1928 while flying to search for missing colleagues
The Norwegian Roald Amundsen and four companions became the first people to reach the South Pole, by dog sledge. Britain’s Scott and his party, arriving a month later, all died on the way back.
Jules Verne’s novel of Captain Nemo’s submarine Nautilus circling the world beneath the sea — the treasure ships of Vigo Bay, La Pérouse’s wrecks, the giant squid and the Atlantic cable behind it, and the people who really reached the South Pole and passed under the North Pole after the novel went there first