Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13
Scott in 1905
Scott as a naval cadet, 1882
HERE WAS BORN IN 1868 AND IN HIS BOYHOOD RESIDED ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, CAPTAIN, R.N., WHO DIED IN THE ANTARCTIC, MARCH 1912 AFTER REACHING THE SOUTH POLE.
Portrait of Scott by John Thomson, c. 1900
Thomas Crean was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving.
Crean on the Endurance Expedition, February 1915
Scott's polar party at 87°S, 31 December 1911, before Crean's return with the last supporting party
Petty officers Edgar Evans and Crean mending sleeping bags (May 1911)
Crean and Edgar Evans exercising ponies, winter 1911