It's around 100 years ago that many of the most famous events of the Heroic Age of Antractic Exploration took place, Amundsen reached the South Pole the first time anyone had done so on the 14th of December 1911 and Scott reached the same place about a month later:
Scott: 17th January, 1912 -
The Pole Camp 69. T. -22°F at start. Night -21°F. The Pole. Yes, but under very different circumstances from those expected....
Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow....
Now for the run home and a desperate struggle. I wonder if we can do it.