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The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...

Timeline of Events

1909

1.16.1909

Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.

1910

6.1.1910

Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.

1911

12.14.1911

Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

1912

1.17.1912

Sir Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

3.7.1912

Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

3.16.1912

Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."

1929

11.29.1929

U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.

1990

11.23.1990

The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.