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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
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
The first expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical South Pole on 14 December 1911, whi
Terra Nova Expedition
…and wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. He and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's party of five died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found…
Amundsen, Hanssen, Hassel, and Wisting at Polheim at the South Pole
Gjøa, the small sloop in which Amundsen and his crew conquered the Northwest Passage, 1903–06
Fridtjof Nansen, whose Arctic drift of 1893–96 inspired Amundsen
Roald Amundsen, the expedition's leader