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Robert Falcon Scott

Born

in The United Kingdom

June 08, 1868

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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	Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals by Robert Falcon Scott (Adapter), Beryl Bainbridge (Introduction) 4.14 avg rating — 1,255 ratings — published 1913 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary Of Captain Robert Falcon Scott by Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Fox (Narrator) , Gordon Fithen (Narrator) 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage Of The Discovery 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scott's Last Expedition, V1 4.09 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1913 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diario del Polo Sur - El último viaje del Capitán Scott 4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1913 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage of the Discovery: Volume One 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyages of Captain Scott: Retold from 'The Voyage of the "Discovery"' and 'Scott's Last Expedition' by Robert Falcon Scott, Charles Turley 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scott's Last Expedition: Diaries, 26 November 1910 - 29 March 1912 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage Of Discovery: V. 2 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tragedy and Triumph: The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott's Last Polar Expedition really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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“It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows.”
― Robert Falcon Scott

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“We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world.”
― Robert Falcon Scott

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