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Image: Matthew Henson, American explorer. 1910.
Matthew Henson – The First Man to the North Pole, 1909.
On April 6, 1909, a team of six men on dog sleds, including the first person to stand on top of the world, an African American man named Matthew Henson, travelled 413 nautical miles off the coast of Greenland to what was believed to be the North Pole. They planted an American flag, a symbol of their achievement and a claim to the territory, yet it would take nearly fifty years for the truth to be revealed.
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