It would have astounded Peary to learn that by the late 1950s and early '60s, the vast, frozen top of the world he pioneered had become a vital highway for world travel and commerce.

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- It cost Commander Robert Peary 20 years of unremitting hardship and misery to reach the North Pole finally in 1909.

- It would have astounded Peary to learn that by the late 1950s and early '60s, the vast, frozen top of the world he pioneered had become a vital highway for world travel and commerce.

- Not just in the skies, but also deep under the ice, in the frigid five-million-square-mile depths of the Arctic Ocean.

- Here, great passenger and cargo-carrying atomic submarines, glided by the dozens back and forth across the Pole...

- Until a series of mysterious undersea disasters threatened to close the Arctic route forever.

- The decisive moment came May 3rd at 1315 hours...

- The undersea atomic liner, Sturgeon, largest of them all, reached 87 degrees, 10 minutes North latitude, only a few miles from the North Pole itself.

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