Scott or Shackleton… who was the greatest British polar explorer of the Heroic Age? It's a matter of opinion, of course, but here are the bare facts: Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the ...

A signed menu from Captain's Scott's 'last supper' before his doomed expedition to the South Pole has emerged for sale 115 years on. Robert Falcon Scott and his fellow explorers were given a ...

WHEN news spread in January 1913 that Antarctica explorer Robert Falcon Scott had died in March 1912 on his attempt to be the first man to reach the South Pole, his wife Kathleen was on her way to ...

In 1901, RRS Discovery helped launch the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration” when it took exploration luminaries like Robert Falcon Scott (who led the expedition) and Ernest Shackleton on ...

Photo / Getty Images Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) celebrates his 43rd birthday at camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during his Terra Nova Expedition. Photo / Getty Images ...

HISTORY Terra Nova Harrison Christian, Ultimo $36.99 In the Antarctic summer of 1911-12, a team of British explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott attempted to be the first to reach the South Pole.

It's believed the cake, found on a shelf in a hut in Cape Adare, belonged to Robert Falcon Scott's northern party from 1911. Source: Getty/ Antarctic Heritage Trust The delicacy, made by British ...

March 2 marks the 65th anniversary of the completion of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Intended to demonstrate Commonwealth unity, it became a symbol of Britain’s imperial decline.

The details of the Terra Nova South Pole expedition of 1910-1913 are etched in our collective imaginations. We know what happened; the courage of that brave party of men who, having been beaten to the ...

The "Terra Nova", Robert Falcon Scott's (1868-1912) expedition ship to the Southpole shown in an ice pack. Undated photograph, circa 1912. (Getty Images) Scott became my hero.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott lay cold, frostbitten and dehydrated in a tent in Antarctica. He was accompanied by two companions – Edward Wilson and “Birdie” Bowers.