Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Navy officer that has entered the history books as the leader of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. He and his team wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. But, while they did reach the South Pole, less than 5 weeks after Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition, Scott and his fellow team mates all died on the frozen continent. At the news of their death, Scott became a celebrated hero, but in the last decades of the 20th century questions were raised about his competence and character and the death of the explorers was attributed to Robert Scott's bad planning and leadership. But is this the truth?
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By Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) - Alexander Turnbull National Library, New Zealand ([ Ссылка ]), Public Domain, [ Ссылка ]
By Bowers. All five men of the South Pole team died upon their attempt to get back to the base camp at Cape Evans: Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Evans. - Scanned from the book Les Grands Explorateurs., Public Domain, [ Ссылка ]
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By Henry Bowers (1883–1912) - Huxley, Leonard (ed) (1913) "The Return from the Pole" in Scott's Last Expedition, Volume 1, New York, United States: Dodd, Mead and Company, pp. Opposite p. 374 Retrieved on 3 November 2011., Public Domain, [ Ссылка ]
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