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Written By: grant on February 19, 2012 No Comment
Science Art: <i>Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica</i>, 1911-1912


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Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later that he went after Santa Claus in his polar fortress.)

He credited his success with not wasting much time surveying and mapping – he went to the South Pole, took two photographs, claimed it [...]

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