Scott of the Antarctic Antarctica is enormous. Almost entirely covered in ice, which is in places over three miles thick, the UK could fit into it over fifty times.
Completely surrounded by the vast Southern Ocean, it is high, windy and extremely cold. It is the only major landmass on earth without an indigenous human population and there are no life forms on the continent except around the coast. Until as late as 1820 no one had seen its mainland, yet by 1890 adventurers from around the world were planning expeditions across it’s forbidding landscape.
An Expedition Imagine you and your partner are on an expedition to the South Pole. You will have to travel more than 800 miles across possibly the most dangerous terrain in the world. Using the map above, you would travel from Scott Base by the Ross Sea to Amundsen - Scott point, just above the Transantarctic mountains. What problems do you think you’d face? How would you solve the following issues; • Travel • Food • Warmth • Transportation See what solutions you can find
• What if it was 100 years ago? • How would your decisions change? • Would you want to be known as the first person to make it to the South Pole and be remembered as a hero? Even if it meant dying in the process?