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. The polar team led by Scott died on ...

It is located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antarctica. The design of the SPT emphasizes careful control of spillover and scattering, to minimize noise and false signals due to ground ...

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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.

Dobchuk and his flight crew made a 20-hour round-trip flight between Antarctica’s Rothera Research Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to rescue two sick Lockheed Martin ...

On 17 January 1912, they reached the Pole, only to find that a Norwegian party led by Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. They started the 1,500km journey back, but by March all had died.

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 ...