Reaching the South Pole During the Heroic Age of Exploration
Posted by: Cynthia Smith
During the early 20th century, the British explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, led expeditions to the South Pole. Roald Amundsen’s polar party was the first to reach the South Pole on December 14th, 1911; five weeks later the polar party led by Robert Falcon Scott was the …
Posted in: 20th century cartography, Exploration