SC Guard commander accepts South Pole state flag

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Adjutant General Robert Livingston is to receive a South Carolina state flag that was part of an expedition to the South Pole commemorating its discovery.

Wednesday’s ceremony is scheduled for 9 a.m. in Maj. Gen. Livingston’s office in the National Guard building in Columbia.

The presentation is by Col. Tom Mullikin, deputy commander of the State Guard. Mullikin took the flag on a trip that commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1911 expedition by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.

On Dec. 14, 1911, Amundsen and his team became the first humans to reach the geographic South Pole, which is nearly 1,000 miles from the coast. They beat British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who reached the spot a month later and died on the return.