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Robert Falcon Scott

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June 08, 1868 in The United Kingdom

died

March 29, 1912

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Robert Falcon Scott was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which made up the British part of what has become known as "the race to the South Pole." On January 17th, 1912 they reached the South Pole only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. The return journey that followed proved to be fatal, with Scott and the rest of his party dying from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold. The bodies were discovered by a search party on November 12th, 1912. Their final camp became their tomb which is now encased in the...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 233 ratings · 32 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals by Robert Falcon Scott, Beryl Bainbridge 4.11 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1913 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Captain Scott: The Voyage Of The Discovery 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1969 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Scott's Last Journey by Robert Falcon Scott, Peter King (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Scott Of The Antarctic; The Journals Of Captain Scott's Last Polar Exhibition by Robert Falcon Scott, Captain Winston E. Scott 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	The Voyages of Captain Scott: Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's Last Expedition' by Robert Falcon Scott, Charles Turley 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	The Voyage of the Discovery: Volume One by Robert Falcon Scott, Capt Robert F. Scott, Captain Robert F. Scott 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Drama am Südpol 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	The Diary Of Captain Robert Falcon Scott by Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Fox (Narrator), Gordon Fithen (Narrator) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Tragödie am Südpol 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Letzte Fahrt - Trag 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
― Robert Falcon Scott, The Diary Of Captain Robert Falcon Scott

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