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Article: British Military Team Reaches South Pole
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- December 28, 2006
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LONDON - A British military team reached the South Pole on Wednesday, becoming the first British troops to arrive there on foot since Capt. Robert Scott's 1912 expedition ended in tragedy, officials said.
Led by Capt. Sean Chapple, the team that included three marines walked and skied 1,740 miles, skirting ice crevasses and facing temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero to reach its goal, according to Royal Navy Lt. Commander Susie Thompson, a spokeswoman for the expedition.
She said that as much as possible, the explorers tried to follow Scott's route. Scott and his four-member team died of starvation and exposure on their return.
Scott was beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian ...