First person to visit both poles
- Who
- Albert Paddock Crary
- What
- First
- Where
- North Pole,
- When
- 12 February 1961
Dr Albert Paddock Crary (USA) (1911-87) reached the North Pole in a Dakota aircraft on May 3, 1952. On Feb 12, 1961 he arrived at the South Pole by Sno Cat on a scientific traverse party from the McMurdo Station.