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.
Roald Amundsen was the leader of the first group of explorers to reach the South Pole in 1911. He and his team reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, beating the British explorer 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.
Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer who is known for leading the first expedition to reach the geographic North Pole in 1909. Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, beating rival explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
186,000 miles per second. This is the 'miles per second' that it takes light to get anywhere in a vacuum.
Robert Falcon Scott
The second group to reach the South Pole was led by Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, and his team in 1911. They successfully beat their rival, Robert Falcon Scott, in reaching this milestone in the race to the South Pole.
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.
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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.
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
North pole was a place,where Edwin Robert Peary reach first.
Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole 36 days after Roald Amundsen.
Roald Amundsen was the leader of the first group of explorers to reach the South Pole in 1911. He and his team reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, beating the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
Robert Scott was the leader of the second expedition to reach the South Pole, missing the honor of being first by a matter of weeks. Scott and his team who accompanied him to the pole died on the return journey.
Robert falcon Scott was born on June 6, 1868 in England. he was a British naval officer and explorer who led the famed ill-fated second expedition to reach the South Pole
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.