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February 1, 2012

Ross MacPhee

An Evening with Ross MacPhee, author of Race to The End

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Time: 6:30pm
Location: Academy of Natural Sciences

One hundred years ago, two teams––one British, the other Norwegian––raced for the honor of being the first people to stand at the South Pole. Roald Amundsen and his Norwegian team won; Robert Falcon Scott and his companions eventually reached the pole but died on their return to base. What motivated this race for glory on the last place on Earth? What was learned at such a cost? Ross D. E. MacPhee, author of Race to The End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole, presents the story of the conquest of the last great geographical prize on Earth and its modern relevance for science and discovery in Antarctica.

Ross MacPhee is curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Fascinated by the evolution of life on southern continents, MacPhee travels annually to Antarctica to search for fossils of ancient mammals and other vertebrates.

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