Robert Falcon Scott

Royal Navy officer and explorer (1868–1912)

10 dated entries naming Robert Falcon Scott, drawn from 7 separate years between 1868 CE and 1915 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1868June 6 – Robert Falcon Scott, English Antarctic explorer (died 1912)source

20th century

  • 1901August 6 – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail from Britain on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.source
  • 1902December 30 – Discovery Expedition: British explorers Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.source
  • 1910June 15 – The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole.source
  • 1911January 4 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island.source
  • 1912January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.source
  • 1912Robert Falcon Scott, British naval officer and explorer (born 1868)source
  • 1912March 16 – Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."source
  • 1912March 29 (probable date) – Robert Falcon Scott and the remaining members of his South Pole expedition die.source
  • 1915January - A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff.source

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