20th of January
Historical Antarctic Pictures and Events
1912 Nobu Shirase's "Dash Patrol" sets off from the Bay of Whales to reach as far south as possible, they get to 80° 5'
1958 - Vivian Fuchs reaches the South Pole on the British Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition., an attempt to complete what Shackleton had tried to do on his Endurance expedition over 40 years earlier. Picture - Admiral Dufek, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Vivian Fuchs greet each other at the South Pole. Broadhead, Bruce Gilchrist, 1927-2001 :Photographs of the South Pacific, Australia and Antarctica. Ref: PAColl-7907-20-1. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
