The Battle for the South Pole Audiobook Libro.fm

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Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and polar explorer He led the Discovery Expedition 19011904 and the Terra Nova Expedition 19101913 two voyages of exploration during the socalled Golden Age of Antarctic exploration He is among the first ten people to reach the geographic South Pole His Terra Nova expedition developed into a competition with Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen Scott reached the pole on January 18 1912 realizing that Amundsen and his crew of four had preempted him by about a month On the way back to base camp Scott and his four companions died of malnutrition disease and hypothermia