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Scott and his financial backers saw the expedition as having a scientific basis, while also wishing to reach the pole. However, it was recognised by all involved that the South Pole was the primary objective ("The Southern Journey involves the most important object of the Expedition" – Scott), and had priority in terms of resources, such as the best ponies and all the dogs and motor sledges ...
In the next scene, the men arrive at Amundsen's empty tent flying a Norwegian flag at the Pole, and notice the paw prints of Amundsen's sledge-dogs. In reality, Scott and his men discovered the "sledge tracks and ski tracks going and coming and the clear trace of dogs' paws—many dogs" on the previous day when they came to a black flag ...
Amundsen, Shackleton, and Peary, in January 1913 Edwin Denby and Peary's daughter at grave, Arlington National Cemetery, April 6, 1922. Peary was promoted to the rank of captain in the Navy in October 1910. [27] By his lobbying, Peary headed off a move among some U.S. Congressmen to have his claim to the pole evaluated by other explorers.
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The ice sheet that drains into the Amundsen Sea averages about 3 km (1.9 mi) in thickness. It is roughly the size of the state of Texas and is known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE); it forms one of the three major ice drainage basins of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet along with the Ross Sea Embayment and the Weddell Sea Embayment.
Sophie Amundsen, a fictional character from the novel Sophie's World; Amundsen (crater), a large crater on the Moon; Amundsen, a 2019 Norwegian film about Roald Amundsen; CCGS Amundsen, a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and Arctic research ship; Amundsen High School, in Chicago, Illinois; Amundsen, one of two probes on the NASA Deep Space 2 mission
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Prestrud, Johansen and Wisting then continued with the strongest dogs, hoping to reach 83° S, but in difficult conditions they halted at 82° S on 8 March. [96] Amundsen could see that the dogs were exhausted; [97] the party turned for home, and with light sledges travelled swiftly to reach Framheim on 22 March. [98]