This document summarizes the dramatic race between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and British explorer Robert Falcon Scott to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen's team arrived at the South Pole on December 14th, 1911, having traveled lighter and faster with experienced polar explorers and using sled dogs. Scott's less experienced team struggled with cold weather gear, equipment issues, and losing their horses. Scott's team arrived to find the Norwegian flag already planted and was forced to return without victory, with Scott and two others dying on their return journey in March 1912.

1. Duel in the Antarctic
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2. One hundred year ago, the Norwegian
Amundsen and the British Scott delivered a
dramatic race to reach the South Pole.
Amundsen Scott
(1872-1928) (1868-1912)

3. Amundsen only wanted to arrive at his aimed point. So
he got the bests skiers and sleigh drivers too. Scott led
an investigation program with scientists unexperienced
in the snow. Amundsen made use of dogs for pulling
the sleighs and Scott took horses and snowmobiles.

4. The Norwegians wore skins. The British wore
overcoats and sweaters which were not good
insulators.

5. On the nineteenth of October in 1911, the
Norwegians left with five people in four sleighs
with fifty-five dogs.
One week later, Scott left with ten
horses, sixteen people and thirty- two dogs.
On the fifteenth of November, Amundsen left
for the “Trasantartics Mountains”. The
Norwegians were five hundred kilometers ahead
of the British.
On the fourth of December, when Scott arrived
at the foot of these mountains, Amundsen rose
to the tableland.

7. On the fourteenth of December in 1911, the
Norwegians arrived at the Antarctic. They stuck
their flag and they left a letter for Scott.
On the sixteenth of January, when Scott was
twenty-four kilometers of his aim, he saw a
Norwegian flag.

8. The British had to come back without victory.
On the seventeenth of February, Evans died due
to exhaustion and cold.
On the seventeenth of March, Oates died in a
snowstorm.

9. Scott, Wilson and Bowers continued, but they
died in a tent because of a very intense
snowstorm.
On the twelfth of November in 1912 a rescue
team found the tent with their frozen bodies
and their diaries. In the sleigh there were many
geographic samples.

10. The last entry in the diary of Scott, on the
nineteenth March in 1912, was:
“We shall fight until the end but we are getting
weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It is
a pity but I do not think I can write more.
Robert Scott
For God’s sake, look after our people”