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1902: In November Robert F. Scott, Edward Wilson and Ernest Shackleton strike out for the South Pole. Leaving McMurdo Sound heading south across the Ross Ice Shelf, two months later they find themselves at 82 degrees south suffering from snow blindness and scurvy.
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www.south-pole.com/p0000052.htm
www.south-pole.com/p0000052.htm
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beginning of gradual upgrade throughout station McM "Public Works Garage" (heavy shop) burns down in a spectacular fire (12/1), the most serious in USAP history, superseding the 1976 disaster at Pole...cause was a malfunctioning electric toilet which had been installed 3 days earlier.
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www.southpolestation.com/trivia/history/history.html
www.southpolestation.com/trivia/history/history.html
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Historical Features; Winterover Statistics; About those winterover crew lists and statistics; South Pole Facilities History 1975-90 (the old text file); South Pole Trivia File February 1987; ... South Pole History and Trivia Files...
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www.southpolestation.com/trivia/trivia.html
www.southpolestation.com/trivia/trivia.html
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The South Pole was exploration's last great prize, and was widely expected to be won by the British. Sian Flynn reveals how the race for Antarctic glory was run ... The geographical prize was the South Pole - the most remote spot on earth... ... British History Timeline...
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www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/race_pole_0...
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/race_pole_01.shtml
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Get help in the History Group ... Aboard the ship Maud, Amundsen and his crew set sail from Oslo, Norway, for the South Pole in September 1910. As it turned out, Amundsen was in a race to reach the South Pole with the crew of English captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912). Amundsen and his crew landed on the Ross Ice...
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www.enotes.com/history-fact-finder/exploration-settleme...
www.enotes.com/history-fact-finder/exploration-settlement/who-was-first-person-reach-south-pole
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The new South Pole Station is an engineering marvel. ... Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sits at the Earth's axis, atop a constantly shifting continental ice sheet nearly two miles thick. Perhaps the world's most remote research facility, the station lies at the heart of a continent cut off from the rest of the globe by...
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www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/livingsouthpole/intro....
www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/livingsouthpole/intro.jsp
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Two men One dream Which one will become the first to reach the South Pole and bring the honor and glory home to their country? Trek along the route of discovery and adventure, deep into Antarctic wastelands. Relive the harrowing trials of ... Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott Race to the South Pole (History Chapters) Cover...
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www.powells.com/partner/32442/biblio/9781426301872
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This was intended to secure the honour of being first to reach the South Pole for the British Empire. ... He made history again when, with his backer Lincoln Ellsworth, he flew the airship Norge to Alaska via the North Pole – the first trans-Arctic flight across the Pole. Amundsen now felt able to retire, a fulfilled man.
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I write the history of the South Pole! If anyone had hinted a word of anything of the sort four or five years ago, I should have looked upon him as incurably mad. And yet the madman would have been right. ... This concluded Ross's attempts to reach the South Pole. A magnificent work had been achieved, and the honour of...
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www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History...
www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/The_South_Pole/south_pole_amundsen_chapter1.htm
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