The British Polar Party of Five Who Reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912 to Find Amundsen's Norwegian Flag Already There and Died in the Snow on the Return
Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four companions reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, thirty-three days after Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition had got there first. All five died of exhaustion, frostbite, and starvation on the return march. Scott's body and his journal were found by a search party eight months later, eleven miles from the One Ton Depot they had been trying to reach.
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