Who was Captain Scott? Kim byl kapitan Scott?

Robert Falcon Scott was an officer in the Royal Navy, who had joined his first ship when he was 13. He was born in Devon and came from seafaring family, though his father ran a brewery. He married a sculptor named Kathleen Bruce in 1908, and they had one son, Peter, who became a famous naturalist.

Scott achieved his dream and reached the South Pole on 17–18 January 1912. The achievement was bittersweet as he discovered that Amundsen had got there first. The 800-mile journey back to their base camp was torturous, and all five of Scott’s party died from cold and hunger.

The first to perish was Petty Officer Edgar Evans, at the base of the Beardmore Glacier. Captain Lawrence Oates died next, reputedly sacrificing himself for the sake of the team, with the last words "I am just going outside and may be some time." The remaining three continued for a further 20 miles, and died just 11 miles from the next food and fuel depot which could have saved them.

A search party was sent out from McMurdo Sound after the end of the Antarctic winter of 1912. It found the bodies of Scott, Dr Wilson and ‘Birdie’ Bowers on 12 November. They were in their sleeping bags inside a tent covered with snow. Their journals and papers were recovered but the bodies were left, wrapped in the tent and buried under a snow cairn. Captain Oates's body was never found.

News of the tragedy only reached Britain in February 1913. A huge memorial service, led by King George V, was held in St Paul's Cathedral soon afterwards.



All pictures I have done yesterday :)
Kilka ujęć pomnika kapitana Scotta, zdobywcy bieguna południowego, które mi się udało wczoraj wykonać.