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Mark Brandon • December 14, 2016

Today is 105 years since Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, Oscar Wisting and  Olav Bjaaland reached the South Pole. And Google have celebrated that fact with a google Doodle:

Amundsen expedition South Pole Google Doodle

I love the doodle. It’s beautiful art.

But it falls on me to be a bit of a bore…

The doodle shows mountains, and south pole is on an extremely flat plateau. Amundsen named it the King Haakon VII’s Plateau.

The doodle shows it’s snowing quite heavily. Actually South Pole is technically a desert, and almost no snow falls. The snow does drift in the winds though.

The doodle shows it’s dark… The sun comes above the horizon at South Pole in September and it doesn’t set until March. When Amundsen and the team arrived it would have been 24 hour daylight.

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Posted in History. Tags: Amundsen, antarctica, Google, Scott, South Pole on December 14, 2016 by Mark Brandon.