Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic...
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The British Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott became the subject of controversy when, more than 60 years after his death on the return march from...
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plus statues of her first husband, the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes her...
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the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS Hecla. The ship was...
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broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young...
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expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition) reached the South Pole within five weeks of each other. But while Scott and his four...
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great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.[citation needed] The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset...
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The Statue of Robert Falcon Scott commemorates Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott. It is located at the intersection of Oxford Terrace and Worcester...
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HMS Scott. The first ship was named after Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet. The later ships were named after the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott: HMS Scott (1917)...
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Heads Robert Vere Scott (1877–c. 1944), Australian photographer Robert Adrian Scott (1911–1972), American screenwriter and film producer Robert Falcon Scott...
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explorer Robert Falcon Scott. NBR Scott Class, a class of steam locomotive on the North British Railway Scott catalogue, stamp catalogue by the Scott Publishing...
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Farthest South (section Robert Falcon Scott)
rivalry between Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Shackleton's efforts fell short; Scott reached the...
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such as Captain Robert Bartlett, Ernest Shackleton, Richard E. Byrd, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, George W. DeLong, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson...
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named for Royal Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Duseberg Buttress stands at the southwest side of Mount Scott. "Mount Scott". Geographic Names Information...
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Dependency territorial claim. It was named in honour of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica...
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Terra Nova Expedition (redirect from Scott Antartic expedition)
1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific...
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role in the 1990s ITV production The Chief. In 1983, Shaw played Robert Falcon Scott in The Last Place on Earth. The series was filmed at Frobisher Bay...
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the third such vessel to be built and named for the ship used by Robert Falcon Scott in his 1901-1904 expedition to the Antarctic. Discovery was built...
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Pole on 14 December 1911, following a dramatic race with the Briton Robert Falcon Scott. Aristotle speculated, "Now since there must be a region bearing...
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on the railway. According to the BBC, explorers Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton all trained for their expeditions at Finse...
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Clements Markham (redirect from Clements Robert Markham)
Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1904, and for launching the polar career of Robert Falcon Scott. Markham began his career as a Royal Navy cadet and midshipman, during...
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Terra Nova Expedition) led by Robert Falcon Scott. In selecting a base of operations for the 1910–1913 Expedition, Scott rejected the notion of reoccupying...
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named by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-04), led by Robert Falcon Scott, for Sir James Clark Ross. Ross Island was the base for many of the...
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expeditions into the interior of the continent. British explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton were the first to reach the magnetic South...
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Ranulph Fiennes (category Collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute)
his army service and his expeditions as well as books on explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Fiennes was born in Windsor, Berkshire on...
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founded by Frank Debenham in 1920 as the national memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions, who died on their return journey from the South...
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Scott of the Antarctic is a 1948 British adventure film starring John Mills as Robert Falcon Scott in his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole. The...
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Expedition – led by Robert Falcon Scott, on 30 December 1903, reached (82° 17′S) 1902 - First balloon flight over Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott 1901–1903 –...
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Terra Nova (ship) (category Robert Falcon Scott)
best known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition. Terra Nova (Latin for "new land") was built in...
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Antarctic expeditions, used, for example, by the expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott (1910–1913) and Ernest Shackleton (1914–1916). Sometimes, the term...
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