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Amundsen Chartered The Ship Fram
He pretended to go on a North Pole expedition, whilst secretly planning for the South Pole instead -
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Race to the South Pole
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Robert F. Scott announced his second South Pole Expedition
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Scott sailed from England to NZ
After very rushed preparations, Scott's team had three motor sledges, nineteen siberian ponies, thirty-tree huskies and twenty-four men -
Scott's Team left NZ on the Terra Nova
3 days out, they were hit by a ferocious gale that lasted 36 hours and nearly sank the ship. -
Scott's old hut on Ross Island
It was blocked by ice, so new Winter quarters were built at Cape Evans, also on Ross Island. Next Scott organised the setting up of depots and a telephone line between Cape Evans and Hut Point in less than a week. Amundsen and his team took a good year to do the same. -
Amundsen and his crew reached Antarctica.
He carefully chose the Bay of Whales (Ross Ice Shelf) to set up base camp and dock his ship, as it was blocked from the wind, and had a stable shoreline. It was also 100kms closer to the pole than Scott's base camp, but it meant going over unknown territory. -
Amundsen and his team built a hut they brought with them
Which they named "Framheim" (home of Fram) after their ship. During the 5 months of Winter, from April to September,nine men carefully set up three different depots so that they would not have to carry extra supplies on their main expedition. -
Amundsen's team of five men and 52 dogs set of on their race to the South Pole
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Scott and his Polar team left on their race to the South Pole
Scott and his Polar team left on their race to the South Pole with 14 mmen on 2 motor sleds, 10 ponies and 2 dog sleds. Scott had decieded that they would ride motor sleds and ponies until they could go no further and haruls the supplies by for for the rest of the way. The motor sleds soon broke down and the horses keps sinking through the ice and snow. The weather was miserable with blizzards. -
Amundsen reached their last supply depot
772 kilometres from the pole -
They created a new supply depot for their return journey
They had 42 dogs left to pull 4 sleds -
It took Amundsen 10 days to climb an unexplored 3000m glacier in very good weather
Amundsen named them after his Norwegian Queen Maud. At the top they took 18 dogs to go on with them and SHOT the rest. -
Scott's tired, starved and frozen horses were shot
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 some fell down crevasses. -
Amundsen reached the South Pole
It was a glorious moment for the men and Norway. They had 17 dogs and 3 sleds. First they set up camp, then over 3 days, they skied in a 16km radius from the south pole point to make sure of the correct position. Only then did they plant the Norewian flag. -
Scott chose fellow explorers to go with him to the South Pole
Scott Choese fellow explorers, Edward Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Edgar Evans and Henry Bowers to accompany him. The supplies had only been planned for a four-man team. -
Scott, Edward, Lawrence, Edgar and Henry the five exhausted and starving men reached at the South Pole
The five exhausted and starving men reached at the South Pole, only to find that Aundsen 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 and excited
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Evans Died
A delirious Evans died -
They arrived in Hobart Tasmania to announce victory
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Oates commited suricide
Oates limped out of the tent during a raging blizzard, saying, "I'm just foing outside and may be some time." He did not return. -
Scott's second last diary entry
'We had fuel to make two cups of tea a piece and bare food for two days on the 20th. Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, adnt eh end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more." -
Scott's Last Diary Entry
"For God's sake look after our people" -
Scott and the remaing mens bodies were discovered
They were not discovered until the next summer when the search-party dug out their almost completely buried camp. Among their possessions were 16kg of rockk samples.
