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South Pole

one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface

17 dated entries naming South Pole, drawn from 11 separate years between 1907 CE and 2007 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1907December – Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.source
  • 1909January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies.source
  • 19099 January – Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole forced to turn back 112 miles from the pole.source
  • 1911December 14 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition reaches the geographical South Pole, 34 days ahead of Capt. Scott. News of Amundsen's success will not reach the outside world until next March.source
  • 191114 December – Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition becomes the first to reach the South Pole.source
  • 1912January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.source
  • 1912March 7 – Roald Amundsen, in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.source
  • 19127 March – Roald Amundsen announced his success in reaching the South Polesource
  • 1928June – Roald Amundsen, polar explorer, led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole (born 1872)source
  • 1929November 29 – Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley and Harold June become the first to fly over the South Pole.source
  • 1929November 29 – Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June, become the first to fly over the South Pole.source
  • 1956October 31 – A United States Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole (arriving by air), and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.source
  • 1958January 4 – Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles.source
  • 1958March 2 – A British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition team, led by Sir Vivian Fuchs, completes the first overland crossing of the Antarctic, using snowcat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams, in 99 days, via the South Pole.source
  • 1989December 11 – The International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, reaches the South Pole.source
  • 20007 January: For the first time in 35 years, an Argentine expedition team successfully reaches the South Pole.source

21st century

  • 2007March 1 – The fourth International Polar Year, a $1.73 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.source

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