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Amundsen chartered the Norwegian 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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Scott announces his second South Pole expedition.
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Scott sailed from England to NZ.
On board there were 19 Siberian ponies,33 huskies and 24 men. -
Amundsen and his crew left Oslo on the Fram.
They took 19 men, 97 huskies, a hut in sections and provisions for 2 years -
Fram docked at Madeira in Spain.
Amundsen sent a telegram to Scott that he was going to the South Pole instead.The crew was to be challenging Scott's team. -
Scott's group left NZ on the Terra Nova.
Three days out, they were hit by a ferocious gale that lasted 36 hours and nearly sank the ship. -
Scott's old hut was on Ross Island was blocked by ice.
New winter quarters were built at Cape Evans,also on Ross Island.Next Scott organised the settings 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 chosed the Bay of Whales 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. -
The team built the wooden hut they bought with them.
They named the hut 'Framhein' (home of Fram) after the ship. -
During the 5 months of summer.
Ninemen carefully set up three different depots so that they would not have to carry extra supplies on their main expedition. -
Amudsen team of 5 men and 52 dogs set off on their race to the south pole.
they travelled the most direct route ,going over anything that got in their way,and travelled 32km each day. -
Scott and his polar team left on their race to the South Pole.
They took 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 their last supply depot
772 km from the pole -
Amundsen's team created a new supply depot for their return journey.
They had 42 dogs left to pull 4 sleds. -
Amunden took 10 days to climb an unexplored 3000m mountain glacier in very good weather.
He named the mountain after his Norwegian Queen, Maud. At the top they took 18 dogs to go on with them and shot the rest. -
the tired starved and frozen horses were shot.
the men had to pull thier own sleds in deep snow. some men were snow blinded and some fell down cravasses. -
the team reached the south pole.
it was a glorious moment for the men and Norway.They had 17 dogs and three sleds. first they set up camp, then over thee days, they skied for three days in a 60km radius from the south polet o make sure of the correct position. only then did they plant the norwigen flag. -
Scott chose fellow explorers.
He chose Edward Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Edgar Evans and Henry Bowers to accompany him. The supplies had only beed planned for a four man team. -
Scott and his four men rached at the South Pole, only to find that Amundsen had beaten them by 33 days.
Now they had to survive the way back to base camp in bad weather. -
They retuned to the bay of wales healthy and exitied.
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they returned to the BAy of Wales
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Scott's team member Evans died.
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They arrived in hobart,tasmania to annouce victory.
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They arived in hobart tasmania to announce victory
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Oated limped out of the tent during a raging blizzard saying ''I'm just going outside and I may be some time.'' He did not return.
The blizzard lasted 8 days and took the lives of the remaining men just 18km from their next supply depot. -
Scott's second to last diary read:
''Since the 21st we had a continuous gale WSW and SW. We had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bare food for two days on the 20th. Every day we have 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 ot the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.'' -
Scott's last entry:
''For God's sake look after our people''. -
They were not discovered until the next summer when the search party dug out their almost completely buried camp.
Among their possesions were 16kg of rock samples.
