R. F_ Scott, commanding the “Discovery,” a well equipped vessel manned by British navy officers and bearing a scientific staff of well qualified men directed a south polar expedition in which ...

Wilson was on the ill-fated polar Terra Nova expedition in 1912 with Scott, which ended in the tragic death of all the group after they were beaten to the South Pole. The owner has recently ...

The Discovery expedition (1901–4) played a key role in the history of polar exploration. It was led by the Royal Navy commander Robert Falcon Scott, a pioneering polar explorer who died in 1912 ...

It's panic," Hjalmar Johansen, the most experienced polar explorer of ... chronicler of the British expedition, called Amundsen's "business-like" operation and Scott's "first-rate tragedy" is ...

The expedition - which included Ernest ... the ascent of the Beardmore Glacier and the polar plateau. By January 1912, only five remained: Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Evans.

A British group, the Numis Polar Challenge will be attempting to re-edit this season Robert Falcon Scott's first expedition to the South Pole, revealed Peter McDowell, General Manager of Adventure ...

When you ask people to name an explorer of the Polar Regions, many will name Robert Falcon Scott, who led a doomed expedition to the South Pole. Few will mention Henry Ernest Shackleton ...

Shackleton's time on the Discovery Expedition lasted two years, with him, Scott and Edward Wilson traveling ... on to become the first to discover the Polar Plateau (via Antarctic Heritage Trust).

which is now in the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) archives. Consequently, the expedition team knew where to focus its search efforts and where to deploy the Sabertooths under the ice ...

Video: John Huston discusses his polar expedition. For more of our conversation with Huston, visit our channel on YouTube. For centuries polar exploration has provided a human link to some of the most ...