In 1910, he sailed on the Terra Nova, determined to reach the South Pole this time. He achieved his goal in 1912, but Roald Amundsen beat him to it. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get ...

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, also wanted to get their first.

Corbis “It is splendid to have people who refuse to recognise difficulties,” Scott wrote early in the expedition to the South Pole ... Scott and Amundsen had reached the pole.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man ever to reach the South Pole, had set his sights on crossing over the North Pole in a dirigible. On May 9, 1926, Byrd made another attempt.

She is the youngest woman to reach the South Pole alone ... The first conqueror of the South Pole was Roald Amundsen, who led ...

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald ... last we reached our destination," Amundsen wrote in his diary on December 14, 1911, "and planted our flag on the geographical South Pole, King ...

Amundsen, who is a national hero in Norway, led the first successful expedition to the South Pole from 1910 to 1912. He is also credited with being the first person to reach both the North and ...

In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole. It was one of the most famous expeditions in history. No single country owns Antarctica. Instead many countries ...

The sensation of cold and howling winds are evoked in the reader’s mind by many books on Polar exploration where a landscape ...