How did polar explorers navigate an “endless” landscape with no landmarks? Did they really reach the Pole? And how did they manage to find their way back (at least some of them…) without missing their supply depots?
Friday 17. 7.
Amundsen and Scott: Finding the Pole
16:45 – 17:30
THE BIG BANG STAGE
Imagine standing on a vast white plain with nothing but a sextant or a theodolite to measure the Sun’s elevation above the horizon. For 24 hours straight, it stays at exactly the same height. That’s the South Pole. But is it really that simple?
