Pole of inaccessibility to reach this false northern pole of inaccessibility was made by Sir Hubert Wilkins, who flew by aircraft in 1927. In 1941, the first Soviet expedition using an airplane landed 350 kilometers north of the false northern pole, thus actually becoming the first expedition to reach the real pole. Ignoring Soviet results, Sir Wally Herbert claimed to be the first to reach what was then considered to be the northern pole of inaccessibility on foot, arriving by dogsled in 1968. Explorer Jim McNeill claimed in 2006 that Herbert did not quite make the pole, and launched his own unsuccessful attempt
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,