with the assistance of his first pilot Bernt Balchen, became the first person to fly over the South Pole on 29 November 1929.

1950-present

It was not until 31 October 1956 that humans once again set foot at the South Pole, when a party led by Admiral George J. Dufek of the US Navy landed there in an R4D-5L Skytrain (C-47 Skytrain) aircraft. The US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station