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amundsen charters FRAM pretending to go on North Pole expediton goes to South pole
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race to south pole
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scott announces second antarctic expedition
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scott setws sail with 19 siberian ponies, 33 huskies and 24 men.
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amundsen leaves olso taking 19 men,97 huskies,hut in sections and provisions for two years
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Fram docked at Madeira in Spain and Amundsen sent a tlegram to Scott that he was going to the South pole instead.
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they left nz on the terra nova. after 3 days they were hit by a bad wind and almost crashed
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Amundsen and 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 100km closer to the pole than Scott's base camp, but it meant going over unknown territory. The team built the wooden hut they brought with them.which they named the 'Framheim' (home of the Fram)after their ship. During the 5 months of winter, fromj april to September, nine men carefully...
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...Three different depots so thet they would not have to carry extra supplies.
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new winter quarters were built because scotts hut was blocked by ice. he set up depots in less than a week. amundsen took a year to do the same
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amundsen leaves framheim with 5 men and 52 dogs to go to the south pole they travelled the most direct route. they travelled 32 km each day.
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t6hey reach their last supply depot 772 km from the pole
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they create a new supply depot for the return journey. they had 42 dogs left
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it took them 10 days to climb an unexplored mountain glacier. amundsen christened it mount maud
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the tired, starved and frozen horses were shot. the men had to pull their own sleds in deep snow. Some men were snow blind and some fell down crevasses.
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the team reached the south pole but skiied in a 16 km radius of the south pole for 3 days to make sure of its position. only then did they plant the norwegian
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Scott chose fellow explorers, Edward wilson, Lawrence Oates, Edgar Evans and Henry Bowers to accompany. The supplies had only been planned for a 4 man team.
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the five exhausted and starving men reached the Southe 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.
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amundsen returnded to the bay of whales healthy and excited
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A delirious Evans died.
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amundsen's team went to tasmainia to announce victory
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Oates limped ot of the tent in a raging blizzard, saying " i am going outside and may be sometime" he did not return.
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The blizzard lasted 8 days and took the kives of the remaining men just 18kms from their last supply depot
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Scotts second last diary entry read "Since the 21st we have a continuous gale WSW and SW. we have had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bre food for 2 days on the 20th. everyday we have been ready to start for our depot 11miles 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 now. we shall stick it out to the end but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity but i do not write more.
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Last entry. For gods sake look after our people . They were not discovered until the next summer when the search party dug out their almost buried camp. Among their possesions were 16kg of rock smaples
