biography
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Scott, R(obert) F(alcon)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1912)
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| biography:
| Antarctic explorer, born in Devonport, Devon, SW England, UK. He joined the navy in 1881, and commanded the National Antarctic Expedition (1901–4) which explored the Ross Sea area, and discovered King Edward VII Land. In 1910 he led a second expedition to the South Pole (17 Jan 1912), only to discover that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them by a month. All members of his party died, their bodies and diaries being found by a search party eight months later. He was posthumously knighted, and the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge was founded in his memory. |
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