Robert Falcon Scott

Amundsen's two-month round-trip sled journey is one of the great feats of exploration—its level of danger and commitment underscored by the tragedy of Robert Falcon Scott and his party, who reached the pole a month later and all perished on the return trip.

In Brief: Adventure Michael J. Ybarra 2011

'His was a subtle character' … Captain Robert Falcon Scott writing his journal during his ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic in 1911.

Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon? 2011

On 6 June 1911 Robert Falcon Scott, who was born in Plymouth, celebrated his 43rd birthday at the south pole expedition base camp at Cape Evans.

Scott of the Antarctic anniversary to focus on science, not the sideshow 2011

Originally released in 1924, Herbert G Ponting's documentary charted Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the south pole.

The Best DVD & Blu-ray releases of 2011 2011

George V led the mourners at the memorial service for Robert Falcon Scott and those who died with him on his ill-fated polar expedition.

Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon? 2011

London Great Scott The legendary race to reach the geographic South Pole came to an end Jan. 17, 1912, when Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica reached the pole—only to discover they had been beaten by Roald Amundsen and his Norwegian team by 33 days.

What's On Around Europe 2012

The book's organizing metaphor is built around the story of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott, the two men who set out separately, in October 1911, to become the first explorers to reach the South Pole.

Turbulent Times, Steady Success Alan Murray 2011

The documents also contain accounts from Robert Falcon Scott on the explorer's first trip to the Antarctic during the earliest British attempt to survey the frozen continent between 1901 and 1904.

Royal Society publishes tales of oil on troubled waters and the first roll-ups 2011

"The Birthday Boys," (1991) about the doomed 1912 Antarctic voyage of Robert Falcon Scott, is told in journal entries by the explorer's team, each more foolhardy than the next.

Life's Tragedy and Farce 2010

Franklin became an imperial hero, an emblem of British rectitude, whose fate prefigured that of another polar explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, who died just after reaching the South Pole in January 1912.

Passage to Nowhere Michael J. Ybarra 2010