During this 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.

What passed between them on this occasion is not recorded, but a few days later, on 11 June, Scott appeared at the Markham residence and volunteered to lead the expedition.

The expedition had caught the public imagination, and Scott became a popular hero.

By early 1906, Scott had sounded out the RGS about the possible funding of a future Antarctic expedition.

He based his expedition at Cape Royds in McMurdo Sound, and this breach of agreement caused a profound shift in the Scott – Shackleton relationship.

By this time, Scott had announced his plans for his second Antarctic expedition.

Meanwhile, Scott spent time in France and Norway, testing motor-sledges, and recruited Bernard Day, from Shackleton's expedition, as his motor expert.

An article in The Times, reporting on the glowing tributes paid to Scott in the New York press, claimed that both Amundsen and Shackleton were " to hear that such a disaster could overtake a well-organized expedition ".

Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Although Discovery was not a Royal Navy unit, Scott required the crew, officers and scientific staff to accept voluntarily the conditions of the Naval Discipline Act, and the ship and expedition were run on Royal Navy lines.

Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

" The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behaviour ," states the analysis written by Douglas Russell and colleagues William Sladen and David Ainley.

He took part in Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock's expedition against the Cheyenne in 1867.

The world first learned of the death of Robert Scott and the members of his team on their return from the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole by way of a cable sent from Oamaru, on 10 February 1913.

Its first known solo ascent and the first winter ascent was accomplished by British mountaineer Roger Mear in March 1985, a member of Robert Swan's " In the Footsteps of Scott " expedition.

The most important single breeding site, at Þjórsárver in Iceland ( holding 10, 700 pairs in 1970 ), was only discovered in 1951, by Sir Peter Scott and his team who made an expedition to seek the breeding grounds.

Stopes's passion to prove Suess's theory led her to discuss with Scott the possibility of joining his next expedition to Antarctica.

She failed to join the expedition, but Scott promised to bring back samples of fossils to provide confirmatory evidence for the theory.

) Although Scott died during the expedition ( 1912 ), his corpse was found ; and located near the bodies of him and his companions were fossils from the Queen Maud Mountains that did indeed provide this evidence.

* In Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur, the novel's main character first works at McMurdo Station at a menial job, then later returns there in a very different role, leading a polar expedition to retrace the steps of Robert Scott.

Crary was the seventh expedition leader to arrive at the South Pole by surface transportation ( the six others before him were — in sequence — Amundsen, Scott, Hillary, Fuchs, a Russian expedition in 1959 / 60 from Vostok base, and Havola ).

Its name honors Roald Amundsen whose Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole in December 1911, and Robert F. Scott whose British expedition of five men reached the South Pole about one month later ( in January 1912 ) in a race to become the first man ever to reach the south pole.

The chronicle only stated that it was an expedition " against the Slavs ".

He also gave a list of grievances of the English people and stated that his proposed expedition was for the sole purpose of having " a free and lawful Parliament assembled ".

Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, Directeur des Ports et Arsenaux, stated in the draft of the memorandum on the expedition he submitted to the King: “ the utility which may result from a voyage of discovery ... has made me receptive to the views put to me by Mr. Bolts relative to this enterprise ”.

He has strongly urged me not to leave his Ministers in peace until they have introduced a bill for the expedition to Chatham Island .’, Lavaud stated in reply that he thought it better for the penal settlement to be at Banks Peninsula, because of the remoteness of the Chathams and the lack of suitable anchorage there.

In 1916, Sir Arthur Keith stated in an address to the Royal Anthropological Institute, that the expedition had engendered " the most progressive and profitable movement in the history of British anthropology.

Some current historians tend to believe Herodotus ' account, primarily because he stated with disbelief that the Phoenicians " as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya ( Africa ), they had the sun on their right-to northward of them " ( The Histories 4. 42 ) -- in Herodotus ' time it was not known that Africa extended south past the equator ; however, Egyptologists also point out that it would have been extremely unusual for an Egyptian Pharaoh to carry out such an expedition.

General Mariano Vallejo stated that the river was named Uba by an exploring expedition in 1824 because of the quantities of wild grapes ( uvas silvestres in Spanish ) which they found growing on its banks.

The Roman author and military officer, Pliny the Elder, drawing upon the accounts of Juba II, king of Mauretania, stated that a Mauretanian expedition to the islands around 50 BCE found the ruins of great buildings, but otherwise no population to speak of.

The Union commander of all armies, Henry Wager Halleck stated to Banks that President Lincoln “ regards the opening of the Mississippi River as the first and most important of all our military and naval operations, and it is hoped that you will not lose a moment in accomplishing it .” On December 4, 1862, Banks and his expedition put to sea for New Orleans.

* Claude Barrois ( stated as Bossawa in records ), became one of Hume's men just before the expedition.

There is even a legend in Capbreton ( it is still stated to this day in their tourist brochures ), that a certain Captain Cabarrus or Gabarrus led a Basque whaling expedition to the shores of present-day Nova Scotia in Canada in the year 1392 ( 100 years before Columbus ´ trip ).

He described the wealth and power of the Sicilian cities Athens would be challenging, and stated that a larger expedition than previously approved would be required, expecting that the prospect of approving such a massive expenditure would prove unappealing to the citizenry.

In 1976, a large Japanese Indian expedition set up camp with the stated purpose of completing the two peak traverse.

Delano stated that Hayden's expedition was directed to "… secure as much information as possible, both scientific and practical … give your attention to the geological, mineralogical, zoological, botanical, and agricultural resources of the country.

On two occasions he apparently considered returning to the Antarctic ; in August 1902 he stated his intention to lead a new Antarctic expedition for the NGS, but nothing came of this, and a later venture, announced in Berlin in 1909, was likewise stillborn.

He was successfully sued by a group of over 200 of his crew, who stated that they had not received their fair share of the expedition profits.

It would have been difficult in these circumstances for him to have clearly stated that this had originally been a slaving expedition.

A plaque when entering the former Ice Station Cool exhibit stated: " This is a recreation of the most recent Refreshus Maximus expedition site where we made one of our " coolest " discoveries yet.

When they stated that Sheppard was just a Major with a questionable record, she told them they could solve that problem with the President and the International Oversight Committee on her side, Sheppard was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and instated as official military commander of the Atlantis expedition.

While the expedition was successful, Hopkins and Saltonstall were questioned over the fleet's failure to follow its stated orders, which had been to engage the British fleet off the Carolinas, and over its failure to capture the clearly outnumbered Glasgow.

As already stated, the inhabitants of Saula are physically identical to homo sapiens but some aspects of their psychology is different, for example, the tone of voice appropriate for giving orders is the same with which Earthlings plead and complain ( citing Anton, the third member of the expedition, " as if someone stepped on a kitten ").

Saula was discovered by a freelance explorer expedition consisting of Saul Repnin, Vadim and Anton ( the surnames of the second two are not stated anywhere ) in 2141.

A subsequent report stated that the expedition contained a company of grenadiers with 52 men, a 42-man company of sharpshooters, 33 French and Creole volunteers known as the Company of Liberty and a marine corps consisting of 15 men.