Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott both explored the South Pole at the same time in 1911. Amundsen was aware of Scott's objective, but Scott was not aware that Amundsen was right behind him. Roald Amundsen got there first on 14th of December, 1911. Amundsen reported that he saw no sign of Scott. Scott reached the South Pole on 17th of January, 1912, acknowledging in his diary that Amundsen had got there a month earlier. The last members of the Scott expedition was found dead by a relief party two years later in 1913.
Robert Falcon Scott
Frederick Cook is generally accepted as the second man to reach the North Pole, after Robert Peary. However, controversy remains even today as to whether either man actually reached the North pole.
Roald Admunsen was the first to get there in 1911.
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186,000 miles per second. This is the 'miles per second' that it takes light to get anywhere in a vacuum.
Roald Amundsen.
Robert Falcon Scott
The group of British explorers who reached the South Pole about one month after Amundsen -- 17 January 1912 -- included Dr Wilson, Captain Robert F Scott, Birdie Bowers, Captain Evans and Lawrence Oates.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott led a team that reached the South Pole about one month after the first team, led by Roald Amundsen.
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott may be best known as the leader of the second team to reach the South Pole.
No. You can read the list of explorers who attempted to sail to the Antarctic continent beginning in the 7th century, below. You can decide on reading the list, who you believe was the second person to reach Antarctica.
North pole was a place,where Edwin Robert Peary reach first.
The second group to reach the summit of Mount Everest was from the Swiss Expedition in 1956.Jurg Marmet from Switzerland on the 23rd May 1956 Ernst Schmied from Switzerland on the 23rd May 1956
He was the leader of the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole 36 days after Roald Amundsen.
Captain Scott led the second team to reach the South Pole, which they did in January 2012. Scott and his team died on the return journey.
The second person to reach the moon was Edwin Eugene.