The flourishing forests of Antarctica

• Main Author: Beerling, David
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bowers; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192806024.003.0013

By arriving at the South Pole on 14 December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) reached his destination over a month ahead of the British effort led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912). As Scott’s party approached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, they were devastated to...