TED-Ed

The dangerous race for the South Pole - Elizabeth Leane (2018x123)

: 10, 2018

By the early 1900’s, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations left: the North and South Poles. After two Americans staked claim to reaching the North Pole, a Norwegian explorer and a British naval officer each set out for the last unmapped region in what newspapers called a “Race to the Pole.” Elizabeth Leane sets the scene for their journeys south. Lesson by Elizabeth Leane, directed by WOW-HOW Studio