File:Ralph Plaisted.webp
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| Description | Ralph Summers Plaisted (September 30, 1927 – September 8, 2008) was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on April 19, 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole. |
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| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: unknown Immediate source: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/us/13plaisted.html |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Ralph Plaisted |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article |
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| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | For visual ID of the person in question, on the page about this person. |
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| Other information | The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2008 Photo is from 1968, a month before his polar trek began. |
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