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Southpole Geocoin

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Released:
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Origin:
Rogaland, Norway
Recently Spotted:
In That Was Then: Mount Forest South

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Go home to Norway as soon as possible!

About This Item

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The Southpole expedtion was competition between the Britain Robert Scott and the Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

Both tried to be the first recorded human reaching the geographic South Pole.
On 09. August 1910 Amundsen started his expedition with his ship "Fram". The official destination was the North Pole. However Amundsen was informed that two Americans (Cook and Peary) made it to the North Pole yet. This was the reason why his plans have changed.
When he stopped in Madeira (the last stop before reaching the Pole) he informed his crew about their new destination. the South Pole.
In January 1911 he reached the Antarctica where they build their base camp until Amundsen started his expedition to the geographic South Pole on 19. November 1911 together with a team of 4 men, 4 sledges and 50 dogs.
Amundsen finally reached his destination on 14. December 1911 and left the Norwegian flag at this place. He made the FTF ;-).

In the same time (but 1 month later than Amundsen) the Britain Robert Scott also started his expedition to the South Pole. He was very disappointed to realize that Amundsen came first, when he achieved his aim 35 days later than Amundsen.
Unfortunately Scott and his crew died on their expedition.

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Discovered It 4/17/2024 Jill_Caroll discovered it   Visit Log

Greetings from Amaranth, On.
New to Geocaching, like seriously first day and second cach is where I seen this coin. I left it because I honestly didn’t know what my role was in this.

  • Greetings from Amaranth, On. 
New to Geocaching, like seriously first day and second cach is where I seen this coin. I left it because I honestly didn’t know what my role was in this.  Log image uploaded from Geocaching® app
Dropped Off 7/15/2014 dchci placed it in That Was Then: Mount Forest South Ontario, Canada - 52.86 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/10/2014 dchci retrieved it from Lisowel Rail Trail #2 Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

Will move it along as soon as we can. 🙂

Dropped Off 4/26/2014 Kevin1170 placed it in Lisowel Rail Trail #2 Ontario, Canada - 55.92 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/23/2014 Kevin1170 retrieved it from Milton Travel Bug Hotel Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

Keep it for a demonstration

Dropped Off 4/22/2014 The_brown_warriors placed it in Milton Travel Bug Hotel Ontario, Canada - 27 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/13/2014 The_brown_warriors took it to Ring the Bell Ontario, Canada - 174.6 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/7/2014 The_brown_warriors took it to Kingston "Super 38" TB Hotel Ontario, Canada - 27.39 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/7/2014 The_brown_warriors took it to Mapleside L&L Ontario, Canada - 1.24 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/7/2014 The_brown_warriors took it to Mr Brad Shaw rd. Ontario, Canada - 171.25 miles  Visit Log
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