AMUNDSEN AT SOUTH POLE
Commemoration Of Arrival
Plans to commemorate the arrival of the first men at the South Pole—a Norwegian party under Roald Amundsen —on December 14, 1911, are being prepared, according to “Antarctic,” the bulletin of the New Zealand Antarctic Society. On December 14, 1961, Norway will issue two special Amundsen stamps and plans for a Norwegian Air Force plane to go to the South Pole are being considered. About a month after the Amundsen party arrived at the pole, the British party of Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and Evans also stood at the South Pole, says the bulletin. “It is hoped that various plans to commemorate the event can be co-ordinated so Norwegians, Americans and the Commonwealth can combine to honour these two great teams of explorers,” says the bulletin. Olav Bjaaland, the last survivor of the five-man Norwegian party of Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel, who were the first men to stand at the pole, died in Norway on June 7. He was 88.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29609, 4 September 1961, Page 3
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