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Amunssen the charted the Norwegian ship Fram and pretended to go on a North Pole expedition while secretly planning for the South Pole.
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Scott announces his second South Pole expedition.
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Scott sailed from England to New Zealand.
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Admundsen and his crew left Oslo on a ship called Fram
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Fram docked at Maderia in Spain, and sent a telegram to Scott telling him he was heading to the South Pole
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Scott and his crew left New Zealand on the Terra Nova
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Scott's old hut on Ross Island was blocked by ice, so new winter quarters were built.
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Admundsen and his crew reached Antarctica.
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Admundsen's team built the wooden hut they brought with them which they named Framheim, after their ship.
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Amdmundsen's team of five men and 52 dogs set of on the race to the South Pole
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Robert F Scott Left on the race to the South Pole
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Roald Admunsen reached their last depot, 772km from the South Pole
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Roald Admundsen created a new supply depot for the return journey, they had 42 dogs to pull 4 sleds.
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Roald Admundsen climbed an unexplored 3000m mountain glacier in very good weather. Admundsen named the mountain after the Norwegian Queen, Maud.
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Robert F Scott shot the tired and frozen ponies, some men were snow blinded and some fell in crevasses
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Roald Admundsen and the team eached the South Pole
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Scott chose fellow explorers Edward Wilson, Lawrence Oats Edgar Evans and Henry Bowers to accompany him.
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they reached the south pole only to realise they had been beaten by amundsen by 33 days
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Roald Admundsen returned to Bay of Whales, healthy and excited.
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A delirious Evans died
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Roald Admundsen arrived in HObart, Tasmania to announce victory
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Oates limped out of the tent into a raging blizzard saying: " I'm just going outside and could be some time", he did not return
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He wrote "For gods sake, look after our people"
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Scotts last diary entry read: " For gods sake look after our people "
