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Scott's Team
Scott announces his second South Pole expedition -
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Race to the South Pole
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Amundsen Team
1909, Amundsen chartered the Norwegian Ship "Fram" pretending to gon on and North Pole expedition, whilst secretly planning for the South Pole instead. -
Scott's Team
After very rushed preparations, Scott sailed from England to NZ with three motor sledges,nineteen Siberian ponies, thirty-three huskies, and twenty-four men. -
Amundsen's Team
Amundsen and his crew left Oslo on the Fram taking nineteen men, ninety-seven huskies, a hut in sections and provisions for 2 years. -
Amundsen's Team
The Fram docked at Madeira in Spain and Amundsen sent a telegraph to Scott that he was going to the South Pole instead. The crew were excited to be challenging Scott's team. -
Scott's Team
They left NZ on the Terra Nova. Three days out, they were hit by a ferocious gale that lasted 36 hours and nearly sank the ship. -
Scott's Team
Scott's old hut on Ross Island was blocked by ice, so new winter quarters were built Cape Evans, also on Ross Island. Next Scott organiesd the setting up of depots and a telephone line between Cape Evans and Hut Points in less than a week. Amundsen and -
Amundsens's team part 1
Amundsen and crew reached Antarctica. He carefully chose the Bay of Whales (Ross Ice Shelf) to set up base camp and dock his ship, as it was blocked from the wind, and had a stable shoreline. It was also 100kms closer to the Pole than Scott's base camp, but it meant going over unknown territory. -
Amundsens's team part 2
The team built the wooden hut they bought with them which they named the hut `Framheim' (home of Fram) after the ship.During the 5 months, from April to September, nine men carefully set up three different depots so that they would not have to carry extra supplies on their men expediton -
Amundens's team
Amundsens team of five men and 52 dogs set of on their to the South Pole. They travelled the most direct route, going over anything that got in their way, and travelled 32kms each day. -
Scott's team
Scott and his Polar team left on their rce to the South Pole with 14 men on 2 motor sleds, 10 ponies and 2 dogs sleds. Scott had decided that they would ride motor sleds and ponies until they could go no further and then haul the supplies by foot for the rest of the way. The motor sleds soon broke down and the horses kept sinking through the ice and snow. The weather was miserable with blizzards. -
Amundsen's Team
They reached their last supply depot. 722 km from the Pole. -
Amundsen's Team
They created a new supply depot for their return journey. They 42 dogs left to pull 4 sleds. -
Amundsen's Team
It took them 10 days to climb an unexplored 3000 m mountain galcier in very good weather. Amundsen named them after his Norwegian Queem, Maud. At the top, they took 18 dogs to go on with them and shot the rest. -
Scott's team
The tired, starved and frozen horses were shot. The men had to pull their own sleds in deep snow. Some men were snow blinded and some and some fell down crevasses. -
Amundsen's Team
The team reached the South Pole. It was a glorious moment for the men and Norway. They had 17 dogs and three sleds. First they set up camp, then over 3, they skied for 3 days in a 16 km radius from the South Pole point to make sure of the correct position. Only then did they planted to Norwegian Flag. -
Scott's Team
Scott chose his fellow explorer, Edward Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Edgar Evans and Herny Bowers to accompany him. The supplies had only been planned for a four-man team. -
Scott's Team
The five exhausted and starving men finally reached South Pole, only to find that Amundsen had beaten them by 33 days. Now they had to survive the journey back to base camp in bad weather. -
Amundsen's Team
They returned to the Bay of Whales healthy and excited. -
Scott's team
Sadly, derlirious Evans died. -
Amundsen's Team
They ariived in Hobart, Tasmania to announce victory -
Scott's team
Oates limped out of the tent during a raging blizzards, saying,"I'm just going outside and maybe some time." He did not return. The blizzards lasted 8 days and took the lives of the remaining men just 18 km from their next supply depot. -
Scott's Team part 1
Scott's second to last entry read:"Since the 21st we have had a continuous gale WSW and SW. We had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bare food for two days on the 20th. Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a scence of whirling drift. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it outto the end, but we are getting weaker, of course and the end cannot be far. -
Scott's Team part 2
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more."
Scott's last entry. "For God's sake look after our people."
R. Scott
They were not discovered until the next summer when the search-party dug out ther almost completely buried camp. Among their possessions were 16 kg of rock samples.
