Ka cika wannan magana: Wannan rukunin masana kimiyya, waɗanda suka ƙunshi wasu daga cikin fitattun mutane a fannonin da suka ƙware, sun haɗa da wakilai daga Amirka, Denmark, Norway da Faransa, da kuma Britaniya da Daularta. Biyu ne kawai, duk da haka, suka sami kwarewar farko na polar: Alistair Forbes Mackay, jami'in likitancin binciken, ya ziyarci Antarctica tare da Sir Ernest Shackleton's
"Nimrod" yawon shakatawa a 1907<unk>09, kuma ya kasance daya daga cikin jam'iyyar uku don gano wurin da ke kudu maso gabashin Magnetic Pole. Wani tsohon soja na "Nimrod", James Murray mai shekara 46, shi ne masanin teku na Stefansson. Daga cikin matasa masana kimiyya sun kasance William Laird McKinlay (1889<unk>1983), wani malamin kimiyya mai shekaru 24 daga Glasgow wanda masanin binciken Scottish William Speirs Bruce ya ba da shawarar, da kuma Bjarne Mamen (1893<unk>1914), dan wasan tsere mai shekaru 20 daga Christiania, Norway, wanda aka dauka a matsayin mai kula da gandun daji, duk da rashin ilimin kimiyya.