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The Man Who Took the Prize
Also heading south was the well-advertised British Antarctic Expedition, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen was keenly conscious of his rival, as his September 12 diary ...
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The air is so dry in Antarctica that chips and popcorn never go stale. It also wrecks your skin, according to someone working there
The air in Antarctica 's remote Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is so dry that chips and popcorn never go stale, according to a worker that is currently living there That is because the station ...
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Centennial of Amundsen and Scott’s South Pole feat next 14 December
preparing for a repeat of the South Pole feat on 14 December 1911 first accomplished by explorer Roald Amundsen and a month later by Sir Robert Scott. According to a piece in La Prensa Austral ...
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Arctic Explorers
On October 18, 1911 Amundsen's entourage set out from the Bay of Whales, on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for their final drive toward the pole. His British counterpart, Robert Scott, dependent on ...