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Person1868 – 1912
Robert Falcon Scott
British naval officer and Antarctic explorer who reached the South Pole in January 1912, a month after Amundsen, and died with his companions on the way back
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The British party of five led by Robert Scott reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 to find Amundsen’s Norwegian flag already there. All five died of cold and hunger on the way back.
Themes this person appears in
- Antarctic Exploration1773 – 2014
From Cook crossing the Antarctic Circle in 1773 to the first sightings of the continent, Ross’s wall of ice, the race to the pole between Amundsen and Scott, Shackleton’s Endurance, the Antarctic Treaty and the ozone hole — two centuries of reaching for the frozen continent