Earlier this week, reports emerged that a scientist at South Africa's SANAE IV Antarctic research base had accused a colleague of physical assault.

AMUNDSEN-SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION, Antarctica -- A plane bringing an ailing doctor back for medical treatment arrived at the British Antarctic research station at Rothera Wednesday night.

Scott returned south aboard 'Terra Nova' in 1910-12. Beaten to the Pole by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Scott died alongside the Polar party on the return journey across the ice.

Also heading south was the well-advertised British Antarctic Expedition, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen was keenly conscious of his rival, as his September 12 diary ...

On October 18, 1911 Amundsen's entourage set out from the Bay of Whales, on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for their final drive toward the pole. His British counterpart, Robert Scott, dependent on ...

This resulted in the station’s evacuation. The 2000 death of an astrophysicist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was a suspected murder. And recent investigations into sexual harassment ...