1. Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, became the first to reach the South Pole-35 days ahead of Captain Scott.

2. In 1911, Englishman Robert Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen raced to become the first person to reach the South Pole.

3. The polar explorer Roald Amundsen didn't need a gun on Spitsbergen, because he had an airship.

4. Meanwhile, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, whose plan to reach the North Pole first had been thwarted by both Frederik Cook and Robert Peary, had secretly turned his sights on the South Pole.

5. Captain Roald Amundsen, Captain R.F. Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton wore Burberry clothing and took shelter in Burberry tents on their expeditions to the South Pole in the 1910s.http://

6. Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his men reached the pole; so did Robert F .

7. A Norwegian, Roald Amundsen , had also set his sight on the Pole.

8. In 1912, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team fought more than exhaustion and cold on their famous quest to become the first humans to reach the South Pole.

9. When Roald Amundsen set up his base camp in Antarctica's Bay of Whales in January 1911, he was 38 years old and a seasoned polar veteran.

10. On Jan. 18, 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there first.

11. Scott and four others died after being beaten to the pole by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.

12. On his way, he received a message from the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen: I'm going South.

13. A Norwegian team is set to embark on an expedition to find the submerged wreck of a plane which carried Norway's great polar explorer Roald Amundsen.

14. When we visited, an exhibit about the race between Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott to be first to the South Pole in 1912, called The Race to the End of the Earth, was just being finished.