Great Mountain Guards Antarctic Lands In King Haakon Pact
News from Christiania reports that Amundsen will name new Antarctic lands for King Haakon and Queen Maud after consent from the Norwegian government. Amundsen is silent on Captain Scott while Rear-Admiral Peary says Scott may confirm reaching the pole. The dispatch notes Amundsen’s party endured extreme cold, blizzards, and crevasses while advancing to the pole and returning with dogs and sledges.
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Amundsen Extends Lead Near South Pole In Polar Race
Amundsen and his party based 80 miles closer to the South Pole than their British rival and were equipped with Siberian dog packs and skis for glacier travel. The Fram had been silent for months until a report arrived two days ago.
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Amundsen Says He Knows Nothing of Captain Scott
The New York Times reports Roald Amundsen in Hobart Tasmania says he knows nothing about Captain Scott and his expedition. The note replies to the Times query about Scott and follows news first published in a London paper alleging Scott reached the South Pole. A second dispatch from U.S. Consul Henry D. Baker at Hobart repeats the claim.
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A Most Daring Explorer Captain Amundsen
Captain Roald Amundsen, a famed Arctic and Antarctic explorer, began polar research at 25 with the Belgica voyage. He completed the Northwest Passage in 1903 1906 on the Gjea and Fram expeditions, later planning a North Pole mission before turning Antarctic.
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Amundsen Claimed South Pole Reach Confirmed by Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society accepts Captain Roald Amundsen’s claim of reaching the South Pole and regards him as the first explorer to do so. The acceptance follows Amundsen’s brief dispatch which states the feat without explicit claim of being first.
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Polar Leaders May Have Met at the Pole
Geographers note that Amundsen and Scott could have been within miles of each other unseen. Scientists await details before declaring Scott’s expedition defeated. It’s possible they met during the dash out or return. If true, Amundsen may have kept quiet to protect his own accounts.
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Captain Osbon argues both Scott and Amundsen reached South Pole
Captain B S Osbon veteran explorer and former Arctic Club secretary says in New York that both Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. He notes Amundsen’s better equipped expedition and says he would not be surprised if Amundsen arrived first. He adds he knows Amundsen well.
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Amundsen to Submit Expedition Proofs
Captain Roald Amundsen will submit his charts and all information on his expedition without delay, per dispatches from Hobart via Wellington New Zealand.
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Remarkable Polar Explorer Shackle ton Cited as Trailblazer
The passage lauds Shackleton as a master explorer whose Northwest Passage voyage in a seven man sloop neared the pole by 111 miles. It recalls Captain Osbon’s Antarctic voyage in 1849 and notes Hobarton Hobartown as Tasmania’s penal colony origin.
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