'The Southern Sledge journey, 1902-1903': Diary of Captain Scott / Robert Falcon Scott; associated papers

MLMSS 387

fonds

1903-1932

896684

0.03 metres of textual material (1 volume and 2 folders) - manuscript, typescript, printed

Sir Robert Falcon Scott, naval officer and Antarctic explorer, was born in Devonport, now in Plymouth, England, on 6 June 1868. He entered the navy in 1880. Between the years 1901 to 1904, Scott led the National Antarctic Expedition, which sailed to Antarctica in the Discovery, the main base being at McMurdo Sound in 1901. On 2 November 1903, Scott, along with Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, left Winter Quarters and set off on their historic Souther Sledge journey across the Ross Ice Shelf, which was to see them reach the highest Southern Latitude then attained, viz. 82 degrees 17. In June 1910, Scott led the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, its primary aims being to study the Ross Sea area and reach the South Pole. Scott, accompanied by Edward Adrian Wilson, Henry Robertson Bowers, Lawrence Edward Grace Oates and Edgar Evans, reached the South Pole on 18 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian expedition, under Roald Amundsen had preceded them by about a month. On the return journey all five members of the party perished.

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'The Southern Sledge journey, 1902-1903': Diary of Captain Scott / Robert Falcon Scott, 1903

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Typescript copy of 'The Southern Sledge journey, 1902-1903': Diary of Captain Scott / Robert Falcon Scott, 1903

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'The Southern Sledge journey, 1902-1903': Diary of Captain Scott / Robert Falcon Scott, associated papers, approximately 10 October 1904-19 April 1932

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No.2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Correspondence from the N.S.W.A.G. 1932 relating to purchase is at As 147/3