Friday, July 23rd, 2010

The Race to the South Pole

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Roald Amundsen From 'Roald Amundsen's The North West Passage: Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship Gjøa, 1903-1907'; Roald Amundsen. New York: Dutton, 1908. National Library of Canada.

Almost one hundred years ago, two teams of explorers set off on dueling quests to be the first to reach the South Pole. One team returned victorious without losing a single man, while the other team perished. We'll take a look at a new museum exhibition that looks at the histories of explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott.

Guests

John Huston
Polar Explorer
Member, modern Amundsen team, "Blizzard: Race to the Pole" (BBC, 2006)
Chicago, Illinois

Ross MacPhee
Curator, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
Author, "Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole" (Sterling, 2010)
New York, New York

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Segment produced by:Katherine Wells

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Image: The 2009 marker for the geographic South Pole. The marker is moved each year due to shifting ice.
US Antarctic Program image.

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