Robert Falcon Scott
Explorer, Award Winner
1868 – 1912
Who was Robert Falcon Scott?
Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain, where opportunities for career advancement were both limited and keenly sought after by ambitious officers. It was the chance for personal distinction and financial pressure that led Scott to apply for the Discovery command, rather than any predilection for polar exploration. However, having taken this step, his name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final twelve years of his life.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1868
Plymouth - Also known as
- Scott of the Antarctic
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Kathleen Scott
(1908 - )
- Kathleen Scott
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Stubbington House School
- Died
- Mar 29, 1912
Ross Ice Shelf
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on July 23, 2013
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