Robert Falcon Scott17 January 1912
Reaches the South Pole with Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Edgar Evans.
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Reaches the South Pole with Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Edgar Evans.
Scott's five-man party reaches the South Pole on 17 January 1912 and discovers that Roald Amundsen's Norwegian party has arrived first.
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