Robert Falcon Scott |
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Born | (1868-06-06)6 June 1868
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Died | 29 March 1912(1912-03-29) (aged 43)
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Education | Naval cadet programme, HMS Britannia |
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Occupation | Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer |
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Spouse(s) | Kathleen Bruce |
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Children | Peter Markham Scott, later Sir Peter Scott |
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Parent(s) | John Edward and Hannah Scott |
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The routes to the South Pole taken by Scott (green) and Amundsen (red), 1911–1912.
Scott, writing his journal in the Cape Evans hut, winter 1911
Scott's group took this photograph of themselves using a string to operate the shutter on 17 January 1912, the day after they discovered Amundsen had reached the pole first.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO, RN (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer who died on an expedition to the South Pole. He is widely known as Scott of the Antarctic, the title of a 1948 movie.
Scott led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13.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 keenly sought after by ambitious officers.