Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

Robert Falcon Scott — British Explorer born on June 06, 1868, died on March 29, 1912

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN 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. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Polar Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. During the 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's party discovered plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. At a distance of 150 miles from their base camp and 11 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold... (wikipedia)

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

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