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Solo Polar Traveller
The Japanese explorer Naomi Uemura was the first person to travel alone to the North Pole. Setting off from Ellesmere Island, he covered more than 447 miles (720km) by dogsled, arriving at the Pole on May 1, 1978.
 
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