Eighteen Hours Over the Ice: Byrd's Flight to the South Pole
On November 28, 1929, Richard E. Byrd and three crewmates took off from Little America in the Ford trimotor Floyd Bennett on the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
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Three Men and a Compass: The Dash to the South Magnetic Pole
On January 16, 1909, three men from Shackleton's Nimrod expedition planted the Union Jack at the South Magnetic Pole after hauling their sledges some 1,260 miles across Antarctica.
The Telegram from the Bottom of the World
On March 7, 1912, Roald Amundsen walked into a Tasmanian post office and told the world he had beaten everyone to the South Pole.