Adventures in Discovery You're the Cap'n! What if...?! Becoming a Master Builder

Chilled Facts

• The Discovery had to be made out of wood because steel would buckle under the ice.
• Men's living conditions were huts insulated with quilted sea weed.
• Amundsen left eight weeks earlier than Scott, yet reached the South Pole one month earlier than Scott.
• Shackleton became so ill from scurvy on The Discovery Expedition that he had to return home.
• Amundsen flew the first Trans-Arctic flight across the Pole.

Frigid Links

• More about Amundsen!
• More about Shackleton!
• More about Scott!
• More about Byrd!
• Timeline!
• The Great Expedition!