Exhibitions

Naomi Nemura: North Pole and Greenland Expeditions, 1978

April 1, 1979 – June 7, 1979

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor

See on Map Floor Plan

See photographs, equipment and navigation notebooks from the Japanese explorer's Arctic expeditions. Instruments from early exploration by Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary are included.

One piece of equipment in the exhibition is active, beaming a 1-second pulse every minute to simulate the signal sent to the Nimbus 6 satellite during Nemura's expeditions.