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The Man Who Took the Prize
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 ...
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What Scott learned on his fatal trek to the South Pole
Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Amundsen's expedition, he said, "was a mere dash to the pole. But Scott's expedition was remarkably successful. He ended up ...
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When a Search Party Discovered the Frozen Body of a British Explorer Who Raced to the South Pole—and Lost
Scott and his crew weren’t the first people to reach the southernmost point on the planet. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen ...
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Arctic Explorers
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 ...
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Centennial of Amundsen and Scott’s South Pole feat next 14 December
preparing for a repeat of the South Pole feat on 14 December 1911 first accomplished by explorer Roald Amundsen and a month later by Sir Robert Scott. According to a piece in La Prensa Austral ...
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What was the Race to the South Pole?
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 ...
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Polar Forests? Yes, Discovery of Amber Proves Antarctica Once Had Them
The great polar explorers Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott all found fossil wood, plants, and coal seams. This is because dense rainforests once dominated Western Antarctica and Australia.
21-year-old Norwegian woman becomes youngest person to reach South Pole on skis, her team says
Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat 114 years after polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South ...
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The paradox of Molly-Mae Hague
The composer’s exhilarating Sinfonia antartica was met with a mixed response on premiere – and still sits oddly in his oeuvre ...
Dan Snow’s History Hit
Roald Amundsen was surely one of history's greatest explorers. He beat Scott to the South Pole, and was the first person to ...
Chilean president makes historic trip to South Pole
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 ...