Scott's expedition to the Antarctic

On 17 January 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four others arrived at the South Pole. They had hoped to make history and be the first people ever to reach their destination, but discovered they had been beaten by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen. Click through the images to see more of Scott's heroic but ultimately fatal quest.

Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, sailed from Cardiff on 15 June 1910. It made its way via South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to the edge of Antarctica, arriving off Ross Island on 4 January 1911. This picture shows the ship near Ross Island on 7 January 1911.

Scott's base was called Camp Evans. Various prefabricated huts and tents were put up during January 1911 in which the expedition crew - a total of 65 men - lived and worked. Here the cook Thomas Clissold makes pies.

Dog handler Cecil Meares entertains himself at the pianola in one of huts at Camp Evans

Much of 1911 was spent by Scott and his team exploring and charting the area. In this picture, Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, chief scientist on the mission, works on a sketch. Wilson was Scott's closest confidant and was a distinguished research zoologist and talented illustrator

A member of the team tucks into a tin of Heinz baked beans.

Geologist Thomas Taylor and meteorologist Charles Wright, two members of the expedition team, are pictured standing in the entrance to an ice grotto on 5 January 1911.

A view of the Terra Nova, moored to the ice sheet off Ross Island on 16 January 1911

Three expedition members sit around a camping stove on Ross Island on 7 February 1911.

Scott and his party arrived at the pole on 17 January 1912. They were devastated to discover they had been beaten. Scott wrote in his diary: 'The Pole. Yes, but under very different circumstances from those expected... Great God! This is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.'

The final page of Scott's journal, written on 29 March 1912 - the presumed date of his death. It was recovered eight months later by a search party, along with the bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers. Evans died on 17 February after collapsing near a glacier. Oates had stepped out of the tent on 17 March, saying: 'I am just going outside and I may be some time.' He was never seen again. The text reads: 'We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity but I do not think I can write more. R. Scott. For God's sake look after our people.'  

Source : MSN UK News.







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