James Cook voyaged to the Antarctic Ocean to find the Antarctic Continent in 1774. It was the first South Pole exploration. He reached a point 240km distant from the shore of the continent, but he couldn't find it, to say nothing of landing, because of the obstruction of floating icebergs. The first landing on Antarctica is thought to be that of John Davis, an American explorer. Since then, many expeditions and science research groups were sent, but none had been able to reach the South Pole. In June 1910, the Scott expedition left England with the will to succeed reaching the South Pole. On October 12th, when their ship arrived at Melbourne, Scott received a telegram which read: "We are also heading for the South Pole." Thus began the two great explorations to the south pole.