Snowmobiles: North Pole, 1968

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1: Map
2: Treacherous chasms in Arctic ice cap (foreground) and pressure ridges (background) confronted Plaisted Polar Expedition of 1968, but group conquered them with Ski-Doo snowmobiles and reached the North Pole April 19, 1968
3: On Polar Ice Cap, Four Ski-Doo snowmobiles got Expedition safely to Pole on April 19, 1968
4: Photo taken from aircraft window over Plaisted encampment, April 20, 1968
5: Plaisted Polar Expedition camp

Dates

1968

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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