Robert Falcon Scott

His parents were John Edward Scott and Hannah Scott . His child was named Peter Markham Scott . Robert had a wife named Kathleen Bruce but when she married Robert her name changed to Kathleen Scott.

Quotes of Robert Falcon Scott

“Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.”

“I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.”

“But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.”

The race to get to Antarctica

In 1911, Englishman Robert Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen race to become the first person to reach the South Pole. One man would win; the other died trying. Scott, a captain in the British navy, took four compatriots with him, along with skis, food, water and a team of supply ponies.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, was a British

Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions

to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition of

1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of

1910–1913.