Introduction
"Great God! This is an awful place.."
These were the words of Robert Falcon Scott, when he and his men finally reached the South Pole in 1912. Scott had attempted to be the first person to reach the South Pole, but after weeks of struggling against the most terrible conditions, was devastated to find that his group had been beaten by a Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen.
But why would Scott and his team want to go to this `awful place'? To find out why, we need to go back in time, to find out why Antarctica has been one of the most extreme challenges known to man.
Map by Melinda Kolk
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