Excerpt from The South Pole, Vol. 1 of 2: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-12 We all assembled about the Norwegian flag a handsome silken flag - which we took and planted all together, and gave the immense plateau on which the Pole is Situated the name of King Haakon vii.'s Plateau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.