Authentic Base camps Antarctic expedition from 1912

Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Naval 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. During this second venture Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian party in an unsought "race for the Pole". On their return journey Scott and his four comrades all perished because of a combination of exhaustion, hunger and extreme cold.

At the beginning of last century, the tragic fate of the Antarctic expedition of British polar explorer Robert Scott shocked the world: 18 Jan 1912, the participants reached the South Pole, but not the glory of pioneering inherited them, a Norwegian polar explorer Robert Amundsenu and its satellites, which visited there a month earlier. 18 January, 1912. Scott writes in his diary: Norwegians ahead of us - Amundsen was first to the pole! Monstrous disappointment! All of flour, all the hardships - for what? I am horrified to think of the way ..

The expedition was killed has not reached the base camp. But the most surprising - that the base camps and survived to the present day.It survived as if their occupants are about to return after their hard pioneering.

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