Antractica explorers…so many people have tried to get to Antarctica but some have failed. They all had the same aim and all the same hope. Some died and some wanted to make history. I’m going to tell you about 2 brave explorers…Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen.
Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navel who led 2 expeditions to Antarctica regions. He had died on his second trip along with his crew. His second expedition was to reach “the giant icecube” before Roald Amundsen but…Amundsen lead first.
FIRST EXPEDITION: Scott led his first British Antractic expedition on the ship, HMS Discovery. On this mission, they used unuasall transport such as the hot air ballon. They sailed along northen Ross Island to Mount Terror. Scott named this area King Edward VI Land. Robert went on a hot air ballon on Febuary 4th, 1902, making the first ballon flight on Antarctica. they suddenly caught Scurvy ( a lack of vitamin C ) and were forced to return.
SECOND EXPEDITION: Scott set out for Antarctica again on June 1st, 1910, on the ship called the Terror Nova. He was racing Roald Amundsen to be the first men in the South Pole. They reached Ross Island on January 4th, 1911, and prepared for a sled trip to the south pole. Scott and his crew set off on dos sleds, ponies and moterixed vechiles on November 1st, 1911.
They were still crossing the Bearemord Glacier and found out that Amundsen had reaches the south pole on January 4th, 1912…they only were 14 days late! They were sorely dissapointed to find Amundsen Norwegain flag. In his jounal, Scott wrote,”Great God! This is an aweful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.”
Scott and his crew were frozen, exhausted, diappointed, and suffering from scurvy as they began their return trip. By February 17, one crew member, Seaman Edgar Evan died. Other members of the expedition began to die, and they set up their last camp on March 11, 1912 only 11 miles from One Ton Depot, where they could have gotten supplies. A raging blizzard kept them from the depot, and the remaining crew died at this camp. They were found dead in ther sleeping bags by a rescue party on November 12, 1912.

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