Race to the geographic South Pole

In December 1911, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach
the South Pole; thus fulfilling a dream of several centuries of daring explorers who
braved the cold and the ice to discover a new world: Antarctica and the South Pole.
On the 14th of December (according to other sources it was already the 15th) 1911,
at 3 pm, the geographic South Pole was discovered by the Norwegian Roald
Admunsen. Amundsen notes soberly and succinctly: "So, we have reached the
geographical South Pole and we will raise the Norwegian flag. Thank God!"
A sea, a glacier, a bay and a mountain in Antarctica are
Roald
named after the Norwegian explorer. Also, a crater at the
Amundsend
south pole of the Moon was named Amundsen
James Cook was a British naval captain, navigator,and explorer
who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada and conducted three
expeditions to the Pacific Ocean ranging from the Antarctic ice
fields to the Bering Strait and from the coasts of North America
to Australia and New Zealand.
Captain James Cook is known for his incredible voyages that took James Cook
him farther south than any other explorer of his time. He was not
able to prove that a southern continent existed, but he had many other
achievements. He was the first to map the coastlines of New Zealand, the eastern
coastline of what would become Australia, and several small islands in the Pacific.
Cook was also one of the first Europeans to encounter the Hawaiian Islands.