I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first.

And yet the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is more than a state-owned life-support system in an extreme, icy environment, where temperatures plunge to around -65°C in winter. Built in 1956 at Earth ...

Robert Falcon Scott wrote in his journal on January 17, 1912, the day he reached the South Pole ... proved that both Scott and Amundsen had reached the pole. Bowers’ straightforward work ...

The first conqueror of the South Pole was Roald Amundsen, who led a Norwegian expedition in December 1911. Karen Kyllesoe's ...

And yet the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is more than a state-owned life-support system in an extreme, icy environment, where temperatures plunge to around -65°C in winter. Built in 1956 at ...

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...