This is a first hand account of the first successful expedition to the South Pole, written by the leader Roald Amundsen. It constructs the character of the expedition and provides insight into Amundsen's philosophy of exploration and his own professionalism, in the age of the amateur explorer.
- CHAPTER X: The Start for the Pole
- CHAPTER XI: Through the Mountains
- CHAPTER XII: At the Pole
- CHAPTER XIII: The Return to Framheim
- CHAPTER XIV: Northward
- CHAPTER XV: The Eastern Sledge Journey
- CHAPTER XVI: The Voyage of the “Fram"
- NOTES
- [1] — Named after Dr. Nansen's daughter. — Tr.
- [2] — A vessel sailing continuously to the eastward puts the clock on every day, one hour for every fifteen degrees of longitude; one sailing westward puts it back in the same way. In long. 180° one of them has gone twelve hours forward, the other twelve hours back; the difference is thus twenty-four hours. In changing the longitude, therefore, one has to change the date, so that, in passing from east to west longitude, one will have the same day twice over, and in passing from west to east longitude a day must be missed.
- [3] — For the benefit of those who know what a buntline on a sail is, I may remark that besides the usual topsail buntlines we had six extra buntlines round the whole sail, so that when it was clewed up it was, so to speak, made fast. We got the sail clewed up without its going to pieces, but it took us over an hour. We had to take this precaution, of having so many buntlines, as we were short-handed.
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