Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kungiyar kimiyya, ta ƙunshi wasu daga cikin fitattun mutane a fannonin su, sun haɗa da wakilai daga Amurka, Denmark, Norway da Faransa, da kuma daga Biritaniya da Daularta. Biyu ne kawai, duk da haka, suka sami kwarewar polar a baya: Alistair Forbes Mackay, jami'in likitan tafiyar, ya ziyarci Antarctica tare da tafiyar "Nimrod" na Sir Ernest Shackleton
a cikin 1907-1909, kuma ya kasance ɗayan ƙungiya uku don gano wurin Kudancin 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.