The first English persons to reach the South Pole would be Robert Falcon Scott and two of his team, Captain Lawrence Oates and Dr Edward Wilson. Of the two remaining members, 'Birdie' Bowers was Scottish and Edgar Evans was Welsh.
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.
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.
Roald Admunsen was the first to get there in 1911.
liv arnesen was the first women to reach the south pole in 1994...she is a Norwegian.
Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the south pole.
The first person to reach the south pole was Roald Amudsen
Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian Explorer was the first person to reach South pole.
Feburary 17, 1913.
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.
He was the first person to reach the South Pole, and he was also the first to reach both the South and the North Poles. He was one of the first people to fly from Europe to America.
Pole-ish. (sorry!)
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.
Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole 36 days after Roald Amundsen.
He did affect history. He became the first person to reach the South Pole in 1912.
Because he want to make the british proud