I found this map of Amundsen's route. I've never seen it before. I'll research it more later. You can see that he "almost" went around-- but did not. So close, yet so far-- for our purpose. Note also that he went to South Pole from the routine way in through what is now McMurdo-- the US Military Base-- they don't call it that- but it's military from what I can gather. This common way to South Pole is consistent again with my last post that NOBODY goes to South pole from the "right side" of Antarctica-- they all enter South Pole from 6:00 to 12:00 (I'll get longitudes later, I forgot them here). I forget which side they call east and west... I think the left side near the Peninsula is "west" and "east" is to the right of the 12:00 position. 
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