Robert Falcon Scott
British arctic explorer, 1868-1812
Scott led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. 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.
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English Polar explorer (1868-1912). Autograph Signature, ‘Robt. F Scott’ / ‘Discovery’’. no place, no date [1904]. Oblong-4to. 2 pp.
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Autograph Signature, ‘Robt. F Scott’ / ‘Discovery’’, [1904], inscribed on a large album page removed from a visitors’ book with discreet date (1904) to the left of each entry in another hand, with 6 further signatures on the same page: Admiral Edward Field (1828-1912). Royal Naval officer and Conservative politician; H[ugh] O[akeley] Arnold-Foster (1890-1965). Politician, writer and Secretary of State for War; [Sir Henry Macleod] Leslie Rundle (1828-1912). British Army General; Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936).
Scottish entomologist, naturalist & scientific illustrator; Orlando Bridgeman [Earl of Bradford and later Viscount Newport] (1873-1957). Conservative politician and soldier; David Ward (not traced); and 6 further signatures to verso: Howard of Effingham (1866-1927); Colonel George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan (1860-1949); Claude Hamilton (1843-1925); Henry de Vere Vane, 9th Baron Barnard (1854-1918); plus 2 further signatures of untraced ‘James Lowther’ and ‘George Barnsley’.