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Scott’s Undoubted Successes Are Little Appreciated – Until Now

Posted on November 2, 2011 by admin

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Very few people know of the many successes and incredible scientific achievements made by Scott’s expedition – the expedition that he organised and lead. Ask most people what they know about Scott, his team and his expedition to “the south … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole | Tagged Antarctic Exploration, Captain Robert F. Scott, Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910, Race For The Pole, Roald Amundsen | Leave a comment

Thursday 19th October 1911 – Amundsen Starts His Southern Journey!

Posted on October 19, 2011 by admin

Polar exploration, 100 years ago today entered a new phase; the “end game”, the start of the expeditions in earnest with Amundsen, after his abortive start a month ago, now starting his push for the pole. Up until now the … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole | Tagged Engelbregt Gravning, Fram, Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910, Roald Amundsen, south pole | Leave a comment

Scott’s Preparations And How The Motor Sledges Behaved.

Posted on October 19, 2011 by admin

Following on from the theme of my last general blog post ” Justifiable Criticism of Scott? ” this is a good time to introduce an article that, as far as this site is concerned won’t be published in the time-line … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole, Site News | Tagged British Antarctic Expedition 1910, expedition preparations, Wolseley motor sledge | Leave a comment

Domain Migration Successful!

Posted on October 11, 2011 by admin

Posted an update from Scott just after my last post about picking up the reins again, ironically Scott’s journal has no entry for 11th October 1911, so the entry I posted was for the day before. Next on the to-do … Continue reading →

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Update on site

Posted on October 11, 2011 by admin

That the site has been inactive for so long it’s been really disappointing for me. Unfortunately real life and real work got in the way and I could not give this project the time it needed or deserved. Even more … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole, Site News | Tagged Antarctic Exploration, British Antartic Expedition 1910, Captain Robert F. Scott, Roald Amundsen | Leave a comment

South Polar Times ~ Subscribe Here!

Posted on April 4, 2011 by admin

The South Polar Times is published as a combination of two things; a newsletter sent by e-mail and a web page that has a summary of all of the journals posts made on a particular day. At the time this … Continue reading →

Posted in Race For The Pole, Site News, South Polar Times | Tagged British Antartic Expedition 1910, Captain Robert F. Scott, journals, newsletter, Roald Amundsen, South Polar Times | Leave a comment

Thoughts Of An Expedition Leader ~ re.: Scott’s journal post of 17th April 1911

Posted on March 18, 2011 by admin

Scott’s journal post yesterday is very informative, giving a summary of the state of play at that time as well as his thoughts for the future of the expedition. At this point in time in some respects his team is … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole | Tagged Captain Robert F. Scott, dog team, expedition logistics, Hut Point, Roald Amundsen, Scott should have used dogs, sledge | Leave a comment

Welcome Two New Bloggers – Roald Amundsen and Tryggve Gran

Posted on March 17, 2011 by admin

Yesterday two new bloggers joined Race For The Pole by bringing their journals online, these are Roald Amundsen, the leader of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition, and Tryggve Gran, also a Norwegian but with Scott’s expedition. Yesterday’s tweet about eh new … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole, Site News | Tagged Amundsen's twitter account, British Antartic Expedition 1910, Gran's twitter account, Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910, Roald Amundsen, Tryggve Gran | Leave a comment

Twitter and Facebook Links Page Published

Posted on February 5, 2011 by admin

Twitter and Facebook Accounts For Our Users We have now been able to publish a page with links to the Twitter and Facebook accounts for the site and the users (members of each expedition) – or at least for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole, Site News | Tagged Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Captain Robert F. Scott, Dr. E. Wilson, Facebook page, Lieutenant Edward Evans, Twitter page | Leave a comment

Site Development January 2011 – Progress!!

Posted on January 27, 2011 by admin

January has been a busy month with site updates developing the blogs/journals for Scott’s party (the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, which sometimes referred to as the Terra Nova Expedition) and for back-end development; 5 characters are posting regularly; Scott, Wilson, … Continue reading →

Posted in Antarctic exploration 1910, Race For The Pole, Site News | Tagged Antarctic Exploration, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, British Antartic Expedition 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, Lieutenant Edward Evans, Race For The Pole, Roald Amundsen, Terra Nova Expedition, Tryggve Gran, winter quarters | Leave a comment

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