Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12d
When a Search Party Discovered the Frozen Body of a British Explorer Who Raced to the South Pole—and Lost
On this day in 1912, a team found the remains of Robert Falcon Scott and the crew of the "Terra Nova" expedition. A would-be ...
Chip Chick on MSN4d
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 ...
National Geographic news3y
Life in an Icy Inferno
The tent is a four-cornered tepee modeled after those that Captain Robert Falcon Scott brought with him on his Antarctic expeditions more than a century ago. It is high enough at the center for ...
BBC13y
Scott of the Antarctic (1868 - 1912)
Robert Falcon Scott was born on 6 June 1868 in Devonport ... The remaining three men died of starvation and exposure in their tent on 29 March 1912. They were in fact only 20 km from a pre ...