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the team built the wooden hut
they built a wooden hut they brought with them which they named the hut -
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robert amudsen and roald scott
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Scott anounced his second South Pole expedition
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Amundsen charted the Nowegian ship Fram
He was pretending to be first to the North Pole but secretly planninng to the South Pole instead. -
Amunsden and his crew left Oslo
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Fram docked at maderia in spain
The fram had docked on spain and Roald had sent scott a message that they would race them -
Scott sails to NZ after very rushed preparations.
After very rushed preparations, Scott sailed from England to NZ with three motor sledges'nineteen Siberian ponies -
Scott leaves NZ to head out to the South Pole
they left NZ on the Terra Nova. three days out, they were hit by a ferocious gale that last -
Scott's old hut gets blocked by ice.
Scott's old hut on Ross Island was blocked by ice, so new winter quarters were built at Cape Evans, also on Ross Island. -
Amudsen finally reached Antarctica
He carefully chose the bay of whales to set up base camp and dock his ship -
Amundsens team of fivemen and 52 dogs
amundsens team of 5 and 52 dogs set of for the race to the south pole -
Scott leaves for the race to the South Pole
Scott and his Polar team left on their race to the South Pole with 14 men on 2 motor sleds, 10 ponies and 2 dog sleds. Scott had decided that they would ride motor sleds and ponies until they could go no further and then haul the supplies by foot for the rest of the way. The motor sleds soon broke down and the horses kept sinking through the ice and snow. The weather was miserable with blizzards. -
they reached there last supply depot
amundsen has reached there last supply of food 772 kilometres from the pole -
they created a new supply for there return journey
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it took them 10 days to climb a mountain
it took them 10 days to climb an unexplored 3000m mountain glacier in good weather -
Scott makes a decision to kill the horses.
The tired, starved and frozen horses were shot. The men had to pull their own sleds in deep snow. Some men were snow blinded and fell down crevasses. -
the team reached to the south pole
they finally made it to the pole it was a glorius moment for the nowegian -
Scott chooses his exploration team
Scott chose fellow explorers, Edward Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Edgar Evans and Henry Bowers to accompany him. The supplies had only been made for a four-man team. -
Scott and his men reach the South Pole
The five exhausted and starving men reached at the South Pole, Only to find that Amundsen had beaten them by 33 days. Now they had to survive the journey back to base camp in bad weather. -
they returned to the bay of whales healthy
they got to the bay of whales hhooooorrrrrrrraaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy -
Evans meets his fate
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they arrived at hobart
they got to hobart, tasmania to announce there victory -
Oates makes his lasts words
Oates limped out of the tent during a raging blizzard, saying , Im just going outside and may be some time. He did not return.
