Picture No | 10547165 |
Date | 1911 |
Description | Has Captain Scott reached the Pole? |
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Page from The Sphere magazine speculating on whether Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his polar exploration team had reached the South Pole in December 1911, as scheduled. In actual fact, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen had reached the Pole first on 14th December and Scott and his colleagues perished on the return journey in March 1912.
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Source | Page in The Sphere, 23 December 1911 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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