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Albert Paddock Crary (1911–1987), was a pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist. He was the first person to have stepped foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on May 3, 1952 (with Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict) and then to the South Pole on February 12, 1961 as the leader of a team of eight.[1] The South Pole expedition set out from McMurdo Station on December 10, 1960, using three Snowcats with trailers. Crary was the seventh expedition leader to arrive at the South Pole by surface transportation (the six others before him were—in sequence—Amundsen, Scott, Hillary, Fuchs, a Russian expedition in 1959/60 from Vostok base, and Antero Havola).[2] He was widely admired for his intellect, wit, skills and as a great administrator for polar research expeditions.[3]
Crary was born in 1911 into a farming family in northern New York State. He was the second oldest in a family of 7 children. He was a physics major and geology student at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He graduated in 1931 Phi Beta Kappa from St. Lawrence University and then enrolled at Lehigh University to obtain a master's degree in physics.[4] After spending years completing and facilitating research at both poles, Crary eventually settled in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife and son.
In 1991, the National Science Foundation (NSF), which manages the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), honoured his memory by dedicating a state-of-the-art laboratory complex in his name, the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center (CSEC) located in McMurdo Station. He was also honored by having the Crary Mountains (76 degrees 48' S, 117 degrees 40' W) and the Crary Ice Rise in Antarctic named for him as well.[5]
Dr. Crary contributed in a variety of important ways to his field including:
He worked with many notable scientists and famous institutions:
Antarctica, Royal Norwegian Navy, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Fridtjof Nansen
Vassar College, World War II, Bard College, Amherst College, Bowdoin College
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, Patriot League, Lehigh Mountain Hawks, Lehigh Valley Railroad
Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze, United States Antarctic Program, Scott Base, Roald Amundsen
Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, Royal Navy, South Africa
Antarctica, Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton
Antarctica, Global warming, Arctic, Royal Air Force, Fridtjof Nansen
Iceland, Roald Amundsen, Arctic, Greenland, James Cook
Albert P. Crary, Alice Crary, Isaac E. Crary, John Crary, William Crary Brownell
Albert Falsan, Albert P. Crary, Aleksander Kosiba, Amund Helland, Austin Post