Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Amundsen's South Pole expedition/archive1

Amundsen's South Pole expedition

Featured article candidates/Amundsen's South Pole expedition/archive1

Nominator(s): Brianboulton (talk) 21:41, 9 November 2011 (UTC) and User:Apterygial[reply]

Almost 100 years ago a team of Norwegian explorers led by Roald Amundesn became the first to reach the South Pole, narrowly preceding a British expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen's party returned safely, Scott's men died on their return journey. This tragedy overshadowed Amundsen's achievement for decades; many thought that he had stolen an unfair march on Scott by being less than honest about his expedition's objectives. Here is the story of his expedition, on which I and User:Apterygial (with useful assistance from others) have been working for several months. The aim is to have the article as TFA on 14 December, the date in 1911 when Amundsen arrived at the pole. But first it has to clear the FAC hurdle. It has recently undergone a very thorough peer review, and in our view is near enough ready, but...Over to you. Brianboulton (talk) 21:41, 9 November 2011– (UTC)

Support I was part of the peer review and all of my concerns were answered there. I note that one of the External links (a map at the Fram Museum) is a dead link now. Other than that minor problem, this meets all the criteria and I am happy to support.

Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:49, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the link. I hope we can find the map again, but a preliminary search suggests it may have been deleted, rather than moved. Apterygial (talk) 10:24, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, Yomangani has helpfully replaced the link with an archive link to the map. Apterygial (talk) 11:07, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support I too took part in the peer review; I had my (very minor) quibbles dealt with there to my complete satisfaction. This article meets all the FA criteria, in my view. – Tim riley (talk) 09:22, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]