Farthest North 1948. On , a US Navy submarine, also named , was the first to sail under the ice pack to reach the North Pole. On , the became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. In 1968, British explorer Sir Wally Herbert became the first person to indubitably reach the Pole on foot, having sledged from Alaska. His expedition was supported by air drops. Farthest North Farthest North describes the most northerly latitude reached by explorers before the conquest of the North Pole rendered the expression obsolete. The Arctic polar regions are much more accessible than those of
The Conquest of the Pole Pole", directed by the pioneering British filmmaker Robert W. Paul in 1903, features a Polar giant, strongly suggesting a direct influence on Méliès. Méliès may also have remembered that the Lumière Brothers had filmed a staged reenactment of Polar exploration, "The Explorer Andrée at the North Pole", in 1897. Georges Méliès is widely regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film, and his "A Trip to the Moon" (1902), "The Kingdom of the Fairies" (1903), and "The Impossible Voyage" (1904) were among the most popular films of the first few years of the twentieth century. However,