Polar & expedition maps
Amundsen’s South Pole expedition routes
Historical recordA separately catalogued expedition or regional map; scale 1 : 6 000 000. It records historical cartographic knowledge, not evidence of hidden continents.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Routes of Captain R. Amundsen's South Polar Expedition 1911-12
- Artifact date
- 1913
- Publisher
- Royal Geographical Society (United Kingdom)
- Holding institution
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre
- Accession
- AADC map 3694
- Projection
- -
- Scale
- 1 : 6 000 000
Scope of evidence
Evidence of an original historical map or manuscript, not evidence of hidden lands or a non-spherical Earth.
Catalog context
Equidistant zenithal projection. Inset : Track of the "Fram" (1:80,000,000)
Amundsen expedition routes, 1911–12; published by the Royal Geographical Society in 1913. Library of Congress copy.
Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal, 1913. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Same map design, scale and Fram inset as AADC 3694, from a different institutional copy. LOC blog caption says 1912 but image explicitly prints THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 1913 at upper right, agreeing with AADC catalog.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division digitized collections are free to use and reuse unless otherwise indicated; no contrary advisory on source.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/09/reaching-the-south-pole-during-the-heroic-age-of-exploration/
- image reuse conditionshttps://www.loc.gov/collections/general-maps/about-this-collection/rights-and-access/
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3694
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