Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901 04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910 13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen''s Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, hunger and extreme cold.