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Robert Falcon Scott

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Also known as R. F. Scott, Captain Scott, Captain R. F. Scott

Royal Navy officer and explorer (1868–1912)

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Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) was a British explorer, naval officer, and non-fiction writer. A captain in the Royal Navy, he participated in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) and the Terra Nova Expedition. Born in Plymouth, he held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Scott was married to Kathleen Scott and was the father of Peter Scott.

He received several honors, including the Officer of the Legion of Honour, Vega Medal, Cullum Geographical Medal, and Polar Medal. Scott died on the Ross Ice Shelf on March 29, 1912, from hypothermia and cachexia. His archives are held at the British Library. Among his published works are *Voyage of the Discovery* and *Scott's Last Expedition*.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1868-06-06
Died
1912-03-29
Works
44

Top works

  • Di letsṭe nesie
  • Man against nature
  • Journals
  • Voyage of the Discovery
  • Scott's Last Expedition

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1868-06-06
Active to
1912-03-29
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Robert Falcon Scott, CVO (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all died from a combination of

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

    · 1988 · cited 95,805x

  2. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

    · 2003 · cited 67,813x

  3. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

    · 2011 · cited 56,572x

  4. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

    · 2005 · cited 48,863x

  5. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

    · 2009 · cited 46,854x

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Quotes

  • “Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.”
  • “Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.”
  • “The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.”
  • “Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.”
  • “I have done this to show what an Englishman can do.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13.

On the first expedition, Scott set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. On the return journey from the Pole, a planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed, despite Scott's written instructions, and at a distance of 162 miles (261 km) from their base camp at Hut Point and approximately 12.5 miles (20.1 km) from the next depot, Scott and his companions died. When Scott and his party's bodies were discovered, they had in their possession the first Antarctic fossils discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents.

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