The dangerous race for the South Pole - Elizabeth Leane
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By the early 1900’s, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations left: the North and South Poles. After two Americans staked claim to reaching the North Pole, a Norwegian explorer and a British naval officer each set out for the last unmapped region in what newspapers called a “Race to the Pole.” Elizabeth Leane sets the scene for their journeys south.
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What were some of the key differences between the British and Norwegian expeditions to the South Pole? What national, cultural or personal factors might have been behind these differences?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Elizabeth Leane
- Narrator Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Animator Denis Bousygin, Alex Bohdan, Anna Dolzhenko
- Illustrator Denis Bousygin
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Associate Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Associate Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Fact-Checker Laura Shriver
- Composer Stephen LaRosa