Captain Robert Falcon Scott was born on June 6th, 1868 in Stoke Damerel, England. He was a Royal Naval officer and Antarctic explorer. During the “Race to the South Pole” Scott came in second and on his way back to their base, he and his four companions died due to the rough terrain in the South Pole.In 1901, Scott commanded the National Antarctic Expedition through many adventures. The major achievement of the expedition was an exploration of the Ross Sea. During the Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), when Scott and his party members decided to head home after a year spent undertaking science work, they began to slow deteriorate in the unpredictable and rough terrain of the cold weather. Slowly, each member started to weaken and die due to miscalculations, injuries, frostbite, malnutrition and exhaustion.
Scott died on March 29th, 1912 on the Ross Ice Shelf and was found in a tent containing two more bodies including Scott. Rock samples of the experiments they were working on were found near the corpses. Diaries were also found near the bodies; these diaries spoke of their last moments in the dying winter.
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