Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott, (1868-1912). British Antarctic explorer. He became a naval cadet and served in the West Indies (1886) under the explorer Sir Clements Markham. On his first Antarctic expedition (1901-04) Scott carried out surveys of the Ross Sea. In 1910 he sailed for Antarctica again, in the Terra Nova, and reached the South Pole in January 1912, a month after Amundsen. Scott died with the rest of his party in severe blizzards on the return journey. His diaries were published as Scott’s Last Expedition (1913). Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909-89) was Scott’s son, a famous naturalist, the founder of the Wildfowl Trust at Slim-bridge, Gloucestershire, and the author of numerous books on birds.
