His backround

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 Navy a naval cadet at the age of 13 and served on a number of Navy ships in the 1880s and 1890s.

Life of the crew

On 17 January, they reached the pole, only to find that a Norwegian

party led by Roald Amundsen, had beaten them there. They started the 1,500 km journey back. Evans died in mid-February. By March, Oates was suffering from severe frostbite.

In June 1910 Scott embarked on a second Antarctic expedition. Its aims were to study the ross sea area and reach the South Pole. Equipped with motor sledges, ponies, and dogs, he and 11 others started overland for the pole from Cape Evans on October 24, 1911.

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