 FACT: On his return from the South Pole at Framheim, Amundsen  learns that the credit for reaching the North Pole has been taken  away from Dr Frederick Cook and given instead to Peary. (It has  since been proved that neither Cook nor Peary got anywhere near the  North Pole but both faked their results.) In reality, Amundsen was  well aware of the controversy *before* his departure for Antarctica,  and to avoid any question that he had not reached the true South  Pole due to faulty navigation, staked out an area of ten miles  around what he believed to be the Pole itself.