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 ...

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 was nothing if not scientific,” Cherry-Garrard said. Shaun O'Boyle The goal of the “worst journey” was the penguin eggs. Herbert Ponting / Scott Polar Research ...

The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth.

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).