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We now know that the amount of rations taken by Scott were inadequate to what they should have been for the extremely energy intensive activity of manhauling their sledges. On the way to the pole, the rations amounted to 4,500 kcal per day and about 3,800 kcal per day on the way bac...
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Over a period of twelve days in the Antarctic spring of 1911 from the 24th of October to the 4th of November, a team of sixteen men, twenty three dogs, ten ponies, thirteen sledges and two motor sledgesset off with Scott to enable a party of four to be the first to reach the Sout...
Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and explorer who led the famed ill-fated second expedition to reach the South Pole (1910–12). Scott joined the Royal Navy in 1880 and by 1897 had become a first lieutenant. While commanding an Antarctic ex
Scott, who was the son of Antarctic explorerRobert Falcon Scott, graduated fromTrinity College, Cambridge (1931), and studied art at the Munich State Academy in Germany and at the Royal Academy in London. In the 1930s he became known as a painter of wildlife, particularly birds, and as an...