22 April 2008
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| On November 1, 1911, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott departed from Cape Evans on his Terra Nova Expedition, trying to become the first man to reach the South Pole. But the captain and his companions never returned to camp—they died on the return journey after having been beaten to the pole by Amundsen. |
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| His hut, and that of Ernest Shackleton, who made the same expedition three years before and three years after, are time capsules, their contents remarkably preserved in the extreme cold. |
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