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When did Scott's polar party reach the South Pole — to find Amundsen's flag already there?
Scott reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, 33 days after Amundsen on 14 December 1911. All five of Scott's polar party died on the return, three of them in a tent eleven miles from the next supply depot.
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The British Polar Party of Five Who Reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 to Find Amundsen's Norwegian Flag Already There and Died in the Snow on the Return Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four companions reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, thirty-three days after Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition had got there first. All five died of exhaustion, frostbite, and starvation on the return march. Scott's body and his journal were found by a search party eight months later, eleven miles from the One Ton Depot they had been trying to reach.
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