If you mean voyages to Antarctica, only two.

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Since Captain Scott was a British Naval officer, it can be assumed that he led and sailed on many more than two voyages, including the two to Antarctica. .

The first man to reach the north pole was an engineer in the American navy called Robert Edwin Peary,who reached the pole on April 6 1909 along with his employee Matthew Henson.

The claim that Robert Peary was the first to reach The North Pole is still hotly disputed.

The second man to the North Pole was Roald Amundsen, he failed being the first to the North Pole, so he tried his luck for the South Pole but Robert Falcon Scott was too planning to reach the South. Amundsen did become first to reach South and also became the first person to visit both North and South Pole. Scott then arrived at the South Pole about a month after, then on his trip back he passed away about 77miles away from a food depo.

Roald Amundsen only flew over the North Pole in an Airship.

This answer is not entirely correct. It is true that Robert Peary did lead the expedition but the actual person that made it to the Noth Pole first was the BLACK explorer Mathew Alexander Henson. Henson had accompanied Perry on 3 other expeditions as well.

The reason Henson was chosen were based on Henson's studies of the arctic region and his knowledge of naval science.

During their 4th and last expedition Perry came down with exhaustion and snow-blindness within 60 miles of their goal so Henson was sent by himself. Henson succeeded in reaching the North Pole and he documented his feat and records in a book. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole which was published in 1912. Back when it happened it wasn't common to give blacks credits for their accomplishments and it's sad to see that the practice hasn't changed much.

There is now considerable doubt that Peary and Henson actually reached the North Pole because of by Peary's omission to produce records of observed data for steering, for the direction and variation of the compass, and for his longitudinal position at any time.

So they could find a quicker, safer, route to China to trade for spices and silk.
They wanted to find a shorter route to Asia to find spices/silks not made/found in their country quicker and cheaper, they also wanted a new route because the route would consist of less on-land travel which meant fewer landing taxes. They knew it would be possible because there was new theories being studied about the world,and new devices being made to help make traveling easier and quicker
The Northwest Passage was wanted to be found in order to find a pathway for trade with Asia.
Finding the Northwest Passage was important because people wanted to go to Asia for the silk, spices, slaves, and gold.
Goods from East Asia, such as silk and spices, were highly prized in Europe. However, traveling by land to the Far East was a long and perilous voyage.

So, sailors attempted to find a way to sail there. Columbus believed the world was round, and so he sailed west to get to Asia, although he miscalculated the incredible distance he would need to sail. When he discovered the Americas, people thought that he had found Asia, but the soon found out it wasn't Asia. Vasco da Gama came up with a different route, which circled around southern Africa and then crossed the Indian Ocean, although it was treacherous.

But Europeans still thought that you could sail west to get to Asia, like Columbus had believed. They just thought that they would need to find a waterway through the Americas, which were blocking their path. They called it the Northwest Passage, but it didn't exist and thus was never discovered.
The Europeans wanted to find a shorter route to Asia.They wanted to find it because the fur trade business was a growing business.Christopher Columbus thought this would work.

He is from America

Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania in 1856.