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Antarctica in general is one of the coldest places on Earth, and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station lies right at the heart of the continent. It was established in 1956 as part of the U.S. Navy’s ...

Scott returned south aboard 'Terra Nova' in 1910-12. Beaten to the Pole by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Scott died alongside the Polar party on the return journey across the ice.

Racing back to his base, Framheim (named after his ship ... that still concern adventurers and explorers today. Amundsen used dogs; Scott ponies and motor sledges. Amundsen traveled by ski ...

but Roald Amundsen beat him to it. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your inbox. Scott and his party had to trek 800 miles back to their base camp ...

He reached the Pole by dogsled on December 14, 1911, just one month ahead of the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott, who died with his entire party on the return journey. In 1926, Amundsen flew from ...

Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway ... his crew returned to their base camp on January 25, 1912, 99 days and 1,860 miles after their departure. Robert Scott's journey, on the other ...