South pole reached by argentine ground expidition:
Dec. 12, 1965 - South pole reached by argentine ground expidition: After marching 46 hard days through the icy grounds of the Antartic, an Argentine military expidition lead by Col. Jorge Edgar Leal reached the South Pole on December 10, 1965. Col. Leal and his group left the Argentine base on the Weddell sea General Belgramo on October 26 and marched 110 kilometers fighting their way under worst weather conditions, to reach the South Pole as the fourth nation achieving this goal. Robert Scott from England, whose expedition finished in tragedy in 1912, and finally the englishman Vivian Fuchs with the Newzealander Edmund Holary conquered the South Pole in 1958. Photo shows official Argentine Army drawing, released by the same, showing the hoisting of the Argentine flag at the South Pole. The inscription says: Operation 90 of the Army at the Argentine Antarctica- South Pole
