{"slug": "robert-falcon-scott", "label": "Robert Falcon Scott", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102527", "qid": "Q102527", "description": "Royal Navy officer and explorer (1868–1912)", "entries": 9, "years": 6, "span": [1868, 1912], "span_label": ["1868 CE", "1912 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 7}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ernest-shackleton", "label": "Ernest Shackleton", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-pole", "label": "South Pole", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "June 6", "text": "June 6 – Robert Falcon Scott, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#April–June", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Births › April–June"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail from Britain on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#July–August", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1902, "year_label": "1902 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – Discovery Expedition: British explorers Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318639#December", "title": "1902", "revid": 1373318639, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1910, "year_label": "1910 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373495790#June", "title": "1910", "revid": 1373495790, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1911, "year_label": "1911 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 4", "text": "January 4 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373497014#January", "title": "1911", "revid": 1373497014, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#January", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March", "text": "Robert Falcon Scott, British naval officer and explorer (b. 1868)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#March", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Deaths › March"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 16", "text": "March 16 – Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, \"I am just going outside and may be some time.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#March", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 (probable date) – Robert Falcon Scott and the remaining members of his South Pole expedition die.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#March", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › March"}}]}