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He Remains Buried In Ice Along With His Crew After He Lost The Race To The South Pole
They had lost the race to the South Pole to Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team. Amundsen made it to the southernmost point on the planet about a month before Scott and his crew.
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What was the Race to the South Pole?
An explorer who went to the South Pole, Robert Falcon Scott ... Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first. The race was on. FATIMA: That sounds ...
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What Scott learned on his fatal trek to the South Pole
As the 100th anniversary of the "Race to the South Pole" is marked ... author of An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Amundsen's expedition, he said ...
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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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The Man Who Took the Prize
Now he was at the opposite end of the world, in the Antarctic, aiming for the most prestigious prize the world of exploration still offered: the South Pole ... Falcon Scott. Amundsen was keenly ...
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Ship linked to Captain Scott’s failed South Pole expedition found off Greenland
On arriving at the geographical South Pole in January 1912, Scott and his party discovered they had been beaten to it by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen ... after the race for the pole ...
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21-year-old Norwegian woman becomes youngest person to reach South Pole on skis, her team says
On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return ...
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Chilean president makes historic trip to South Pole
Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...
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Quest for the Pole: Historic Antarctic Land Journeys
In 1902, Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, and Ernest Shackleton set out with dog teams and sledges aiming to be the first to reach the South Pole. They pushed south to 82º16.5'S, when scurvy ...
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Woman, 21, becomes youngest person to reach South Pole on skis
On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return ...
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Norwegian 21-year-old becomes youngest to reach South Pole
On December 14th, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return ...