Amundsen reaches the South Pole
1911 · Event
Norwegian expedition is first to the geographic South Pole; beats Scott by 34 days.
On these timelines: The Race to the South Pole, Age of Exploration, Master, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age
More from The Race to the South Pole
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Scott's last diary entry (1912)
- Scott reaches the Pole — second (1912)
- Shackleton's Endurance expedition (1914)
- Oates walks into the blizzard (1912)
- The voyage of the James Caird (1916)
- Amundsen turns south in secret (1910)
- Shackleton turns back 97 miles short (1909)
Around 1911
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- World War I (1914)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)