Also heading south was the well-advertised British Antarctic Expedition, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen was keenly conscious of his rival, as his September 12 diary ...
Scott and his crew weren’t the first people to reach the southernmost point on the planet. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen ...
On October 18, 1911 Amundsen's entourage set out from the Bay of Whales, on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for their final drive toward the pole. His British counterpart, Robert Scott, dependent on ...
How do you do, Ollie? I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ...
Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat 114 years after polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South ...
The composer’s exhilarating Sinfonia antartica was met with a mixed response on premiere – and still sits oddly in his oeuvre ...
Chilean President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, his government confirmed.
The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station reaffirmed Chile's own claim to sovereignty over part of the Antarctic. "This is a milestone for us," Boric said in footage shown ...
View the paths of glory and despair that revealed this uncharted land to the world. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Discovery 1901-1904 Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, Scott led the ...
The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station reaffirmed Chile's own claim to sovereignty over part of the Antarctic. "This is a milestone for us," Boric said in footage ...