The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-07
ROALD AMUNDSEN
CONFIRMS STORY
Competitor in the Race Sends
Message of His Rivals
Success

Hobart. Tasmania, March 7.-
Captain Robert Falcon Scott. the lead.
or of the British South polar expedi-
tion, succeeded in reaching the covet-
ed goal. according to Captain Roald
Amundsen. the Norwegian explorer
and the principal rival of Scott, who
arrived here last night after many
months in the South polar regions.
Inc cable dispatches from New
Zealand announcing that Captain Scott
nad found the South pole. comes as a
startling climax to the race which five
explorers of different nationa lities have
been making TO reach this last ex.
tremity of the undiscovered portion
of the globe
Captain Robert Falcon Scott started
on his expedition from Port Chalmers,
New Zealand. Nov. 20, 1910. He at.
tanned record of So degrees, so min.
utes on previous expedition.
Shackleton pusher farther south and
in 1907 reached IS degrees. % min.
utes. or about 100 miles from the
South pole.
Captain Scott took the route by way
OF Australia and New Zealand. He
sailed due south into Ross sea, the
great stretch of water reaching toward
NV s'''"'i' oAG. Ills CliIel COInDCtlI0I
was Roald Amundsen, who was com.
missioned by the king of Norway and
the Norwegian government.
Amundsen chose the route by way
OF South America as against Scott and
three others who went by the AUS
tralian route. He left Buenos Aires
aboard the steamer Fran toward the
close of 1910. He passed through the
straits of Magellan and then steered
i for Ross sea-
Scott planned to follow the same
land trail Shackleton had taken. This
is along the mountain range, thought
10 be an extension of the Andes range.
At the furthermost point of the Ross
sea. Scott debarked his party from
the ship at Terra Nova. Here stands
the great volcano Mount Erebete,
from which rises constantly a great
volume of steam. 1t is one of the
dreaded localities Of the Antarctic
to which navigators have given the
name of Terror Ban. for here Norden-
skleld's ship. the Antarctic. was
crushed in the ice
Scott made his first winter quarters
on the slope of the mountains and
II was then his dash began. He was
fully equipped with dogs, ponies and
motor sledgc. while Amun,lsen re-.
lied solely on his Siberian dogs.
The other competitors in the race
We're Lieut.. William Fichncr of the
general staff of the German army:
Lieut.. \. Shirase of the japanese
navy. and DR. Douglass Mawson, rep
resentine Australia. These men and
parties have now been ont of sight
many months. and no news his heen
heard from them until Yesterday,
when Amundsen brought word that
his leading opponent had reached the
coveted goal.
The quest for the South pale is not
been fraught with the sam. pcrils as
relat" to the North pole. The search
for the latter has been through fields
of open water and floating ice. where.
AS the south pole is situated on land.
scores of naEig;itors periSllcd looking
for the North pole. but comparatively
few in the southern quest
The problem "f reaching he South
pole has been one of reaching the goal
by passing rapidly over the SNOW cov-
cred foothills Of the mountain range
and the terrifying glaciers