Explorers

Learn more about exploration

• Polar regions today and yesterday
  From the heroic age of polar exploration to the expeditions of today
• Reaching the South Pole, 110 years ago
  On 17 January 1912 Captain Scott and his four companions reached 90 degrees South
• A Christmas like no other? Captain Robert Scott’s 1910 expedition to the Southern Ocean
  Experiences of Herbert Ponting and the Terra Nova crew
• The death of Robert Falcon Scott
  Was Robert Falcon Scott’s leadership really to blame for the tragic outcome of the Terra Nova Expedition?
• Queen Elizabeth I’s Sea Dogs
  Explorers, adventurers and privateers who sailed, fought and looted their way around the globe
• The man who found Dr Livingstone
  Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in present-day Tanzania
• Captain Lawrence Oates: Antarctic tragedy
  His parting words were: ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’
• John Cabot and the first English expedition to America
  The Italian-born explorer was sent to explore the ‘New World’ by King Henry VII
• What was Captain Cook looking for when he crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1773?
  On 17th January 1773, Captain Cook’s Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle
• Roald Amundsen: The first to reach the South Pole
  On 14 December 1911 Amundsen and his team became the first humans to reach the South Pole
• Everest revealed
  Edward Norton and the 1922 and 1924 British Mount Everest expeditions
• Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers – The first Scot to reach the South Pole
  Captain Scott’s marvel