Multiple choice

Name the explorer who first reached the South pole?

  1. Captain James Cook

  2. Ronald Amundsen

  3. Robert Peary

  4. Christopher Columbus
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Explanation

Roald Amundsen (not Ronald) was the Norwegian explorer who first reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, beating Robert Falcon Scott by about a month. Captain Cook explored the Pacific but never Antarctica, Robert Peary claimed the North Pole, and Columbus sailed to the Americas.

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