{"id":1406,"date":"2021-12-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:12:39","slug":"ces-aventuriers-qui-ont-traverse-larctique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/en\/ces-aventuriers-qui-ont-traverse-larctique\/","title":{"rendered":"These adventurers who crossed the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discovered by man in 1819, Antarctica has always been the most hostile of continents. However, a handful of adventurers have had the ambition to cross it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 19, 1819, the ship of the English captain William Smith approaches Antarctica. It was the first time that man had gone beyond the 62nd degree. The land Smith observed that day was indeed the Antarctic continent. It will take almost 100 years to finally reach the South Pole. It was the Norwegian Roald Amundsen who was the first to plant his country's flag there on 14 December 1911, stealing victory from the British. Since then, it is the complete crossing of the Antarctic that fascinates man. There are about twenty of them who have succeeded in doing so. A look back at these extraordinary feats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first scientific crossing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 2, 1958, after covering 3,360 kilometers in 98 days, explorer Vivian Fuchs and his team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to Scott Base on the Ross Mother. While this is a sporting feat, it also has a scientific objective. Fuchs's team wanted to measure the thickness of the polar ice to determine the structure of the Antarctic. It was at this time that coal was discovered in the Theron Mountains on the South American side of the South Pole. The expedition also included Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest. After Everest and the North Pole, Hillary also went to the North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and the summit of Everest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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