17th of January
Historical
Antarctic Pictures and Events
Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic Expedition (South Pole Expedition) on the ship Terra Nova, 1910 - 1913.
1912 - Scott reaches the South Pole. His party finds that Amundsen had already been there, they had seen a flag along with ski, sled and dog tracks in the snow the day before. They confirmed the position of the pole.
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"Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.
We have had a fat Polar hoosh in spite of our chagrin, and
feel comfortable inside. Now for the run home and a desperate
struggle. I wonder if we can do it."
l-r: Oates, Bowers, Scott, Wilson, Evans.
1933 - Three Guernsey cows arrive at the Little America Station at the Bay of Whales Antarctica with Admiral Byrd to provide fresh milk for the station, 2 returned safely to the USA a year later, the third had to be put down because of frostbite. (portrayed by a stunt double in the picture).
1773 - Captain James Cook makes the first ever crossing of the Antarctic Circle.
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"In this space, thirty-eight ice islands, great and small, were seen, besides
loose ice in abundance, so that we were obliged to luff
for one piece, and bear up for another, and as we continued
to advance to the south, it increased in such a manner,
that at three quarters past six o'clock, being then in the
latitude of 67° 15' S., we could proceed no farther;
the ice being entirely closed to the south, in the whole
extent from E. to W.S.W., without the least appearance of
any opening."
