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One of the most famous polar shipwrecks has been filmed in detail on the sea floor for the first time. The Terra Nova carried ...
In 1910, two explorers—Roald Amundsen of Norway and Robert Falcon Scott of Britain—set out to conquer the last untouched frontier on Earth: the South Pole. What began as a race for glory ended in ...
100 Years since Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. Dec. 18, 2011 — -- On December 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole.
Robert Falcon Scott (far left) and his crew at the South Pole in January 1912 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men reached the geographic South Pole on ...
Editor's Note: John Bauhs, a Portage High School graduate and chef to 250 scientists and workers at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, has agreed to update Daily Register readers ...
On September 20, after six months of darkness, the return of the sun at the South Pole signaled the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. For scientists at NOAA’s South Pole Atmospheric ...