“I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far” The final frontier may be space, but in the early 20th century it was the race to conquer the last of Earth’s uncharted territories, the North and South Poles, that drove our explorers.
In what would become known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, an era of scientific and geographic importance, Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a leading figure. Scott headed up two of the most important expeditions of the time, the latter of which resulted in his and his crew’s untimely deaths.
Born in Devonport, Plymouth, on 6 June 1868, Con, as Scott was affectionately…
