• Thumbnail for Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
    The AmundsenScott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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    Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition. Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, and about a year later heard that Scott and his...
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  • Thumbnail for Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions
    December 1911 and January 1912, both Roald Amundsen (leading his South Pole expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition) reached...
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    Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK: /ˈɑːmʊndsən/, US: /-məns-/; Norwegian: [ˈrùːɑɫ ˈɑ̂mʉnsən] ; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer...
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  • therefore returns to Scott's base camp and informs Scott about Amundsen's presence in the vicinity. In fact, Scott was not at his base camp during this unscheduled...
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  • Thumbnail for Robert Falcon Scott
    the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition...
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  • Thumbnail for Research stations in Antarctica
    southernmost base, AmundsenScott South Pole Station, and the largest base and research station in Antarctica, McMurdo Station. The second-southernmost base is...
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  • Thumbnail for Terra Nova Expedition
    where they found that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's party of five died on the return journey from the pole;...
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    on the continent of Antarctica, it is the site of the United States AmundsenScott South Pole Station, which was established in 1956 and has been permanently...
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    Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova expedition. Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, and later learned that Scott and his four...
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  • Thumbnail for Estación Polar Científica Conjunta Glaciar Unión
    Camp. After the American base Amundsen-Scott and the Chinese base Kunlun, Union Glacier Station is the nearest active base to the South Pole, located...
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  • Thumbnail for McMurdo Station
    Criticism has been leveled at the base regarding its construction projects, particularly the McMurdo-(Amundsen-Scott) South Pole highway. McMurdo Station...
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  • Thumbnail for Amundsen Coast
    and the west side of the Scott Glacier. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer...
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  • Thumbnail for Norge (airship)
    expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer and pilot Umberto Nobile and the wealthy American...
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  • Thumbnail for Controversies surrounding Robert Falcon Scott
    party led by Roald Amundsen, who had arrived at the Pole five weeks earlier. Scott's party perished during their return journey to base camp in McMurdo Sound...
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  • Thumbnail for Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
    reach the South Pole overland for 46 years, preceded only by Amundsen's expedition and Scott's expedition in 1911 and 1912. In keeping with the tradition...
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    Polheim (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    Polheim ("Home at the Pole") was Roald Amundsen's name for his camp (the first ever) at the South Pole. He arrived there on 14 December 1911, along with...
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    Hjalmar Johansen (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    1910 he was one of Amundsen's men on the Fram and in Antarctica. Amundsen and his men, racing for the South Pole with Robert Falcon Scott, started out for...
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    Oscar Wisting (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    with Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole. As a participant in Amundsen's South Pole expedition, on 14 December 1911 along with Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen...
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  • Thumbnail for Northwest Passage
    Rae explored a more southerly area in 1854 through which Norwegian Roald Amundsen found a route, making the first complete passage in 1903–1906. Until 2009...
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    record had been surpassed, as first Amundsen and then Scott reached the South Pole. In his own moment of triumph, Amundsen nevertheless observed: "Sir Ernest...
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  • The Last Place on Earth (category Cultural depictions of Roald Amundsen)
    Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott (played by...
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    Ernest Shackleton (category Collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute)
    Shackleton's contemporaries, Sir Raymond Priestley, said: "Scott for scientific method, Amundsen for speed and efficiency[,] but[,] when disaster strikes...
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    Framheim (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
    Framheim was the name of explorer Roald Amundsen's base at the Bay of Whales on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica during his successful quest for the South...
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  • Thumbnail for Scott's Hut
    Nova Expedition) led by Robert Falcon Scott. In selecting a base of operations for the 1910–1913 Expedition, Scott rejected the notion of reoccupying the...
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  • Thumbnail for History of Antarctica
    Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally reached the Pole on 14 December 1911, following a dramatic race with the Briton Robert Falcon Scott. Some authors have...
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  • Chicago at the AmundsenScott South Pole Station. He was engaged to Sonja Wolter, who was overwintering as a maintenance specialist at the base in order to...
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    Lawrence Oates (category Collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute)
    note from Amundsen informing them that his party had reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911, beating Scott's party by 35 days. Scott's party faced...
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    by Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth 1926: Aircraft flight by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett 1926: The airship Norge (Roald Amundsen, Umberto Nobile...
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  • Thumbnail for Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
    voyage) Mill, pp. 431–32 "Scotland and the Antarctic, Section 3: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen". Glasgow Digital Library. Archived from the original on 14...
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