New Zealand · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Reaches the South Pole as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, for which he led the New Zealand section. First to reach the Pole since Amundsen in 1911 and Scott in 1912, the first motor vehicles to reach the Pole
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