When did Olav Bjaaland arrive at the South Pole?
Amundsen's South Pole expedition The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911, five weeks ahead of a British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition. Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, and later learned that Scott and his four companions had died on their return journey.
South Star The modern term South Star, also called southern pole star, refers to the star that happens to lie closest to the south celestial pole (SCP) and which appears (approximately) directly overhead to an observer at the Earth's South Pole. At present, the naked-eye star nearest to this imaginary point is Sigma Octantis, whose angular separation from the pole is about 1° (as of 2000 ). Its apparent magnitude is a very faint 5.45, and as such it is not very useful for general navigational purposes. This is in contrast to the much brighter 2nd magnitude North Star, Polaris, which marks the approximate position of the north celestial pole.