Robert Falcon Scott wrote in his journal on January 17, 1912, the day he reached the South Pole ... proved that both Scott and Amundsen had reached the pole. Bowers’ straightforward work ...

Amundsen made it to the southernmost point on the planet about a month before Scott and his crew. Still, at least he was the first British explorer to reach the South Pole. But since the mission ...

"And so at last we reached our destination," Amundsen wrote in his diary on December 14, 1911, "and planted our flag on the geographical South Pole, King Haakon VII's plateau. Thank God!" ...

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.

By August of 1910, Amundsen was ready to make his own attempt to reach the South Pole, although all the world thought he was headed in the complete opposite direction. He had secretly ruled out ...

McMurdo Station is 863 miles from the Amundsen-Scott Station in the South Pole. Hood said the timing of the two retrieval flights was coincidental. If the Shemenski-Carlisle exchange could not ...

On 17 January 1912, they reached the Pole, only to find that a Norwegian party led by Roald Amundsen had beaten them ... ago Scott was approaching the South Pole and was surely in a state of ...

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

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

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 ...