What is Amundsen's expedition south?
"Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole" is the undemanding name of the first expedition, which reached the South Pole, led by the Norweigan explorer Roald Amundsen. Amundsen took place between September 1910 and March 1912, reached the South Pole at a time when the competition was intense - defeated the Englishman Falcon Scott by a month and reached the pole of December 1911. Field.
Amundsen was an experienced explorer at a time when he launched an expedition to the South Pole, which was part of the first crew, which hibernated in Antarctica (1899), and was the leader of the first expedition to get through the northwest passage (1903) since he was before. Amundsen originally wanted to be the first at the north pole, using the frjsem , sometimes considered the strongest wooden ship ever built but when in 1909 heard that Robert Peary firstHe got to the North Pole, changed his plans and decided to continue to Antarctica. The crew consisted of 16 men, including Amundsen.
landing on the eastern edge of the huge Ross ice shelf, the nearest landing point to the South Pole, the expedition to the South Pole created his first camp in the Gulf of Whale 14. They started to set out on missions and create supply warehouses on a straight line to the pole and store more than £ 6700 (2750 kg) of canned food and fuel. Shortly after landing, the Framheim camp visited Robin Falcon Scott at Terra Nova , all of whom later died when returning from the pole.
The South PorexPedice had a false start on September 8, 1911, when the initial spring warming turned out to be a coincidence and was not maintained. After a week of traveling with an eightThe team decided to turn around and return to Framheim to wait for warmer conditions. On October 19, 1911, the new pole team, with only five members, left Framheim with four sleds and 52 dogs.
starting with 78 ° south, Amundsen's expedition to the south went south and after a month of continuous sledding reached 85 ° south, after which they rested one day. Without magazines, the expedition would have to survive on what it has from this point. Each stage is about 69 miles (111 km), so until now the road came about 483 miles (777 km) and was a little more than halfway to the pole. They were at the base of the trans-antarctic mountains.
The next day the Amundsen team performed at the Trans-Antarctic Mountains through the formerly unknown Axel Heiberg glacier, which Amundsen named after Aalthy Man, who helped finance his journey. After a four -day climb, the team of 21 arrived in November. The crew delayed four days by bad weather killed 24 dogsin a camp that were nicknamed "butcher's business". The dog's body was fed to other dogs and men, the rest to the cache for the way back.
Leaving the edge of the Polar Plateau 25. On December 14, 1911, three weeks later, the team finally got to the pole, named his camp "Přímheim" and left the tent and letter as evidence of their success. They got back to Framheim 25 January 1912, then to Hobart in Australia, 7 March 1912.