Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913.
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
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had v
Robert Falcon Scott
…March 1912) was a British naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913. On the first expedition, Scott set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the…
Scott, Bowers, Wilson, and Edgar Evans at Amundsen's base at the South Pole
Edward Adrian Wilson, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers and Edgar Evans at the South Pole
Robert Falcon Scott in 1905
Tabloid medical chest for Scott's Antarctic Expedition, 1910