The
Terra Nova Expedition, officially the
British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to
Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. It was led by
Robert Falcon Scott and had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the
Discovery Expedition to the
Antarctic in 1901–04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic
South Pole. He and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that
the Norwegian team led by
Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later.