100 Years since Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. Dec. 18, 2011 — -- On December 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole.

In 1910, a fierce competition began between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and British captain Robert Falcon Scott. Each explorer wanted to be first to reach the geographic South Pole, thereby ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) --Chilean President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, his government confirmed. Boric arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station ...

On September 20, after six months of darkness, the return of the sun at the South Pole signaled the arrival of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. For scientists at NOAA’s South Pole Atmospheric ...

Chile, Argentina, the U.K., Norway, Australia, New Zealand and France—maintain territorial claims on the continent.

What does disappointment look like? What is the expression on a man's face, expecting death in the icy wilderness? "The worst has happened", Robert F. Scott wrote in his diary on January 17, 1912. The ...

Climate scientists long thought Antarctica’s interior may not be very sensitive to warming, but our research, published today, shows a dramatic change. Over the past 30 years, the South Pole has been.

OSLO (Reuters) - Frostbite and hundreds of miles of icy crevasses pose timeless dangers in a new international race to the South Pole nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 110, No. 748 (June 1998), pp. 747-753 (7 pages) ABSTRACT During the austral summer of 1996, the mid‐infrared imaging polarimeter NIMPOL ...

A 21-year-old Norwegian woman has become the youngest person to reach the South Pole on skis, solo and without assistance, her team told AFP on Tuesday. Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat overnight ...