Captain Scott
Polar expedition leader
Captain Scott refers to Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), the British Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer who led two expeditions to the South Pole.
His second expedition reached the pole in 1912, only to find Norwegian Roald Amundsen had arrived first; Scott and his party perished on the return journey.
The name evokes both heroic endeavor and tragic failure: a Captain Scott expedition into the unknown.
- AntarcticSouthern polar region
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- polarOf extreme latitudes
- Terra NovaLatin for new land
- South PoleSouthernmost point on Earth
frozen continent · race to the pole · frostbite · blizzard · frozen · heroic · heroic age · tragedy · diary · sledge · ponies · Oates · dying wish · Wilson · Shackleton · British · Union Jack · explorer
- ExplorersColumbus, Christopher Columbus, Magellan, Cortez, Marco Polo
- DiaristsAnne Frank, Anais Nin
narrative framing of failure
Captain ScottErnest Shackleton
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