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Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor And Meteorologist Charles Wright Beside An Iceberg

At the turn of the century, when explorers took on the Arctic, people were awestruck. For the honor of being the first to reach the South Pole, people competed! In 1911, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott launched the Terra Nova Expedition to do just that. The group encountered difficult conditions on their way to the “pole hunt.” After nearly a year of waiting, they arrived on January 16, 1912. The story’s most tragic aspect was that a flag had already been placed there! Roald Amundsen of Norway beat them by a month.

Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor And Meteorologist Charles Wright Beside An Iceberg