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...than the dogs and men who pulled the sledges. In 1909 Commander Robert Edwin Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled, though Frederick Albert Cook (TIME, March 31) claimed he had anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott's party all died of cold and exhaustion on their way back to their base. Author Cherry-Garrard, member of Scott's main expedition,* gives a complete account of the three-year expedition (1910-1913). Says...
...Roald Amundsen was the name of a 15-ton, one-sail vessel, built to resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...
...Roald Amundsen...
...Eielson and Wilkins made their astounding air way across the Arctic from Point Barrow eastward to Spitsbergen, across converging lines of longitude, through shifting fields of terrestrial magnetism-at 135 m.p.h. The late Roald Amundsen, with Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, beat them to the first Arctic air crossing by sailing the semirigid dirigible Norge from Spitsbergen westward across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson...
Norway, because of the Pole-discovering expedition of the late great Roald Amundsen (1911) and the establishment of whaling posts, would have a potent voice at any diplomatic gathering to discuss South Polar sovereignty...