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Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Roald Amundsen
Norwegian polar explorer (1872–1928)
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1911 expedition to the South Pole
The first expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical South Pole on 14 December 1911, which was to be five weeks ahead of the British party led by Robert Falcon Scott…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ross Ice Shelf
Ice shelf in Antarctica
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica. It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 kilometres (370 mi) long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface. Ninety percent of the floating ice,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
January 14
Day of the year
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