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first signs of life found in antarctica
Carsten Borchgrevink found lichen the first signs of plant life found -
mankind survivves antarctic winter
Adrien de Gerlache and his crew became the first to survive an antarctic winter -
unsuccessfull walk to the pole
shackelton, scott and three others lead an unsuccessfull walk to the south pole -
shackelton almost reaches pole on a journy of his own
shackelton almost reaches pole on his own journey -
first successfull trip to south pole
a race to the pole was won by Amundsen -
scott on a trip to the south pole
scott lost the race to the south pole -
scott dies
on the way back to his ship scott and co are cought in a blizzard and cannot go on the die inside their tent -
the endurance is frozen
shakeltons ship is frozen in sea ice -
the endurance gets crushed
the ship gets crushed by sea ice and is abandoned -
enduranes crew starts a long walk
a walk across the ice to a distant land begins. The 28 men walk less then two miles then they set up camp on drifting sea ice.