Submarines are cramped and uncomfortable at the best of times. Now imagine trying to reach the North Pole in a Submarine built in 1916 without heating or insulation. That was the fate of the crew of the Nautilus in this daring and ill-fated expedition to reach the pole in a submarine.

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