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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...

Timeline of Events

1910

6.1.1910

Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.

1912

1.17.1912

Sir Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

3.16.1912

Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."

11.12.1912

The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.