Only four men from the Terra Nova expedition including Scott's friend Wilson proceeded with Scott to the pole. Amundsen traveled by dog sled, with a team of explorers, skiers, and musher s. The foresight and navigation paid off: Amundsen reached the pole in December He called the camp Polheim, and the entire Fram expedition successfully returned to their resupply depots, ship, and Norway. More than a month later, Scott reached the South Pole, only to be met by Amundsen's camp—he had left a tent, equipment, and supplies for Scott, as well as a note for the King of Norway to be delivered if the Fram expedition failed to make it back.
Disheartened, Scott's team slowly headed back north. They faced colder temperatures and harsher weather than Amundsen's team. They had fewer supplies. Suffering from hunger, hypothermia , and frostbite , all members of Scott's South Pole expedition died fewer than 18 kilometers 11 miles from a resupply depot.
American explorer Richard E. Byrd became the first person to fly over the South Pole, in , and the Amundsen—Scott South Pole Station was established thirty years later. However, the next overland expedition to the South Pole was not made until , more than 40 years after Amundsen and Scott's deadly race.
The expedition was led by legendary New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, who had become the first person to scale Mount Everest in Transportation to the South Pole Almost all scientists and support personnel, as well as supplies, are flown in to the South Pole. Hardy military aircraft usually fly from McMurdo Station, an American facility on the Antarctic coast and the most populated area on the continent.
The extreme and unpredictable weather around the pole can often delay flights. In , the U. It takes about 40 days for supplies to reach the pole from McMurdo, but the route is far more reliable and inexpensive than air flights. The highway can also supply much heavier equipment such as that needed by the South Pole's astrophysics laboratories than aircraft. Resources and Territorial Claims The entire continent of Antarctica has no official political boundaries, although many nations and territories claim land there.
No Time at the Poles Time is calculated using longitude. For instance, when the sun seems directly overhead, the local time is about noon.
However, all lines of longitude meet at the poles, and the sun is only overhead twice a year at the equinoxes. For this reason, scientists and explorers at the poles record time-related data using whatever time zone they want. The highway was created by filling in deep crevasses in the Antarctic ice sheet. The only vehicles on the highway are specialized tractors equipped with specialized towing sleds. After the last supply plane has left the facility not to return for six months , they watch two movies: The Thing about a parasitic alien being terrorizing an Antarctic research facility and The Shining about a caretaker isolated at a remote hotel in the winter.
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