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The Doomed South Pole Voyage’s Remaining Photographs
For more than two months, British Capt. Robert Falcon Scott and his men had hauled their supply sledges across 800 miles of ice from their base camp at Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, hoping to become ...
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Scott of the Antarctic (1868 - 1912)
Robert Falcon Scott was born on 6 June 1868 in Devonport. He became a naval cadet at the age of 13 and served on a number of Royal Navy ships in the 1880s and 1890s. He attracted the notice of the ...
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UK Services Antarctic expedition celebrates Scott’s South Pole feat in 1912
Members of the British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 on Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the day Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated team reached the South Pole, as their own ...
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He Remains Buried In Ice Along With His Crew After He Lost The Race To The South Pole
On January 18, 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men reached the geographic South Pole, only to discover they were not the first people to make it there. When they arrived, they ...