The exact history of the expedition is not well known, however it appears that their plan was to sail to Etah and hire local Inuit to help them reach the Pole.
NH 91 passes through this district.Etah's nearest district and surrounded by Budaun, Aligarh, Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Mahamaya Nagar, Kasganj.
Etah was used in the past as a base camp for several Arctic expeditions, including Knud Rasmussen's expeditions to the northern coast of Greenland, Robert Peary's failed attempts at the North Pole, the ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition of 1913, the Humphrey Expedition of 1934-35, the MacGregor Arctic Expedition in 1937-38, and the Haig Thomas Expedition of 1938.
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The driving distance from New Delhi to Etah is 207 km and it takes 3 hours 8 mins to reach there.