reported from the site of Nikon Italy (http://http://www.nital.it/sguardi/ 67/news.php):
After a long search in the archives of National Library of Australia, Norwegian historian Harald Ostgaard Lund discovered the ' only known photo of expedition that first reached the South Pole .
On 19 October 1911 a small group of four explorers Norwegians led by Roald Amundsen , left the base camp in the Bay of Whales with four sledges and 97 dogs in Greenland.
On 14 December the same year he finally planted the Norwegian flag on the pole, beating the speed British Terra Nova expedition of Sir Robert Falcon Scott , who arrived few weeks later, on January 17, 1912, finding the flag left by those who had won the competition on winning the Scott South Pole in running return to base camp, was killed along with members of his expedition.
