Sir James Clark Ross was the first British person to the south pole.
The first person to reach the North Pole is disputed, but Robert Peary and Matthew Henson were recognized for reaching the North Pole in 1909. Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911. Sir Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909 did not attempt to reach the North Pole.
First airplane to land at South Pole. (October 31, 1956). Operation Deep Freeze II under Admiral John Dufek. Aircraft Que Sera Sera (an R4D) lands at South Pole, piloted by Conrad Shinn.
Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian Explorer was the first person to reach South pole.
The first man to reach the South Pole was Roald Amundsen, who along with his team, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting reached the South Pole on December 14th 1911, some 35 days before Robert Scott's ill fated team.
Britain is in the northern hemisphere, the South Pole is at the dead centre of the southern hemisphere. If Britain is in the middle of its summer, the South Pole will be in the middle of its winter, therefore, the South Pole will be in darkness.
The North Pole lies in the Arctic, the South Pole is in the Antarctic. So it'd be impossible to reach North Pole in Antarctic, since it isn't there.
Pole-ish. (sorry!)
The first person to reach the south pole was Roald Amudsen
Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole 36 days after Roald Amundsen.
Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the south pole.
Matthew Henson
sir James clark ross
Roald Amundsen and his team.
No doubt, that there may have been other Irish persons that may have worked at the Scott Base, but the record books show that Mike Barry was the first Irishman to get to the South Pole manhauling his own supplies from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole in 2004.Other notable Irish firsts include Mark Pollock, who was the first Blind person to walk to the South Pole in 2009, and Clare O'Leary, who was the first Irish woman to reach the South Pole, in 2008 when she was a member of the first all Irish team to reach the Pole.
The First men to reach both Poles on foot, were Charlie Burton and Ranulph Fiennes as part of the Transglobe expedition of 1979/82.
All of Amundsen's team members were Norwegian.
If you are standing precisely at the South pole, you can only travel north.