Spence 16; Renard 17; Rosove 9.A1. Amundsen and his party reached the South Pole on Friday, 14th December, 1911, the first men ever to do so. This is the official narrative of that expedition, translated from the Norwegian edition of the same year. It includes a signed portrait of Amundsen, a press photograph issued by the news agency “International” with a captioned slip pasted to the verso: “For more than 19 months the silences of polar seas have shrouded the vessel that bore Roald Amundsen away in his endeavor to reach the north pole; now comes the news that Amundsen, discovered of the south pole has arrived safely at a Siberian port 4-24-20”. In fact, Amundsen was at this time attempting to traverse the north west passage aboard the Maud.