Who among the following is the first person to have reached both the South Pole and the North Pole?

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The first ever expedition to reach the geographic Southern Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911. He is the first person to have reached both the South Pole and the North Pole.
A British naval officer, Sir James Clark Ross located the northern magnetic pole in 1831. He later commanded an Antarctic expedition with his ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, during which he charted much of Antarctica’s coastline. He discovered the Ross Sea and named 2 volcanoes after his vessels. Ross later published a memoir, A Voyage of Discovery and Research to Southern and Antarctic Regions.
Robert Falcon Scott is credited with discovering that Antarctica is a continent. He reached the South Pole on Jan 17, 1912, a month after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did.
The Indian Antarctic Programmeis a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional programme under the control of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences. It was initiated in 1981 with the first Indian expedition to Antarctica. It was led by Dr. Syed Zahoor Qasim.

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Roald Amundsen

The first ever expedition to reach the geographic Southern Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911. He is the first person to have reached both the South Pole and the North Pole.
A British naval officer, Sir James Clark Ross located the northern magnetic pole in 1831. He later commanded an Antarctic expedition with his ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, during which he charted much of Antarctica’s coastline. He discovered the Ross Sea and named 2 volcanoes after his vessels. Ross later published a memoir, A Voyage of Discovery and Research to Southern and Antarctic Regions.
Robert Falcon Scott is credited with discovering that Antarctica is a continent. He reached the South Pole on Jan 17, 1912, a month after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did.
The Indian Antarctic Programmeis a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional programme under the control of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences. It was initiated in 1981 with the first Indian expedition to Antarctica. It was led by Dr. Syed Zahoor Qasim.