It cost Commander Robert Peary 20 years of unremitting hardship and misery to reach the North Pole finally in 1909.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Atomic Submarine movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:01:49 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- Until a series of mysterious undersea disasters threatened to close the Arctic route forever.
- The decisive moment came May 3rd at 1315 hours...
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