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The
Race to the South Pole The
first person to make it to the North Pole was Roald Amundsen who was a
Norwegian explorer and he had taken four men with him. They were: Sverre
Hassle, Helmer Hanssen, Oscar Wisting, and Olav Bjaaland. |
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On
Dec17th, as Amundsen and his men planted their country's flag, a British
explorer called Robert Scott Falcon and his men were fighting their way
across a mass of 800 miles which was between their base camp near
today’s U.S McMurdo station and the pole.
Amundsen’s
team got back to their ship which was at the coast and they got back to
Tasmania on March 17th 1912, and from there they were able to
send a telegram that told the world that they had reached Antarctica.
Scott and his team were getting weaker and iller as they pulled their
sledge’s back to where their ship was waiting. Finally all five died.
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