Person

Scott, Robert Falcon

Born
England
Occupation
Antarctic explorer

Summary

Robert Scott commanded the British Antarctic expedition of 1897 and explored the area in the "Discovery" 1900-1904. In 1911 he began his sledge journey to the South Pole but arrived four weeks after Amundsen. All members of the party perished on the return trip.

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Robert Falcon Scott - Records, 1904, ML DOC 1130; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Robert Falcon Scott - Records, 1910 - 1912, 999 S 428; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Baughman, T. H., Pilgrims on the ice: Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic expedition (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 334 pp. Details
  • Crane, David, Scott of the Antarctic: a life of courage, leadership and tragedy in the extreme south (London: Harper Collins, 2005), 480 pp. Details
  • Fitzsimons, Peter, Mawson: and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen (North Sydney: William Heinemann, 2011), 737 pp. Details
  • Huntsford, R., Race for the South Pole: the Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen (London: Continuum, 2010), 330 pp. Details
  • Macphee, Ross D. E., Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott and the Attainment of the South Pole (New York; London: Sterling Innovation: American Museum of Natural History, in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, 2010), 245 pp. Details
  • Mawer, Granville Allen, South by Northwest: the Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2006), 319 pp. Details
  • Preston, Diana, A first rate tragedy: Captain Scott's Antarctic expeditions (London: Constable, 1997), 269 pp. Details
  • Scott, Robert, The voyage of the "Discovery", 2 vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1905). Details
  • Scott, Robert Falcon, Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition. Edited with an Introduction by Max Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 529 pp. Details
  • Solomon, S, The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition (Melbourne/New Haven, CT: Melbourne University Press/Yale University Press, 2001), 405 pp. Details
  • Yelverton, David E., Antarctica unveiled: Scott's first expedition and the quest for the unknown continent (Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2000), 472 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Alp, Bill, 'Captain Scott rewrote his story: January - June 1911', Polar Record, 58 (e2) (2022), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247421000723. Details
  • Guly, Henry, 'The Death of Robert Falcon Scott (1869-1912) and Colleagues', Journal of Medical Biography, 20 (4) (2012), 160-3. Details
  • Quilty, Patrick G., 'Laying the Foundation: Early Australian Earth Scientists in the Antarctic: Part 2 - Geologists with Scott's 1911-1912 Final Expedition', TAG: Geological Society of Australia Newsletter, 161 (2011), 21-6. Details
  • Roberts, Peder, 'Heroes for the Past and Present: a Century of Remembering Amundsen and Scott', Endeavour, 35 (4) (2011), 142-50. Details

Resources

See also

  • Chester, Jonathan, Going to extremes: Project Blizzard and Australia's Antarctic heritage (Sydney: Auckland: Doubleday Australia, 1986), 308 pp. Details
  • Lewis-Jones, Huw and Herbert, Karl, In search of the South Pole (London: Conway, 2011), 192 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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