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The South Magnetic Pole was first reached in Victoria Land on 16 January 1909 by T W Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay. These three men were part of Sir Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Nimrod Expedition 1907 - 09.

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