The carpenters' shop, Amundsen's South Pole expedition mb-code 1237973 Wood Street

Wood Street

pictured wearing black silk cocktail dress

Thursday 25th January 1973

Skeleton of an extinct bird

Inscribed verso in pencil 'Potenza north side

The carpenters' shop, Amundsen's South Pole expedition mb-code 1237973 Wood StreetThe carpenters' shop, Amundsen's South Pole expedition, Antarctica, 1911 1912. Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen (1872 1928) led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving at the Pole on 14th December 1911, beating Captain Scott's British expedition by 35 days. From The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expeditian in the 'Fram', 1910 12 Vol 1 by Roald Amundsen.