Where Robert Falcon Scott trying to get to?

Answer 1

Scott was trying to get to the South Pole, but this was not his only aim. Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1912) was primarily a scientific expedition. While 16 men were involved in the Southern Journey (to the Pole), another group led by the meteorologist George Simpson remained at the hut at Cape Evans to conduct scientific experiments and observations. Another party, led by the Australian geologist T. Griffith Taylor, went west to explore unmapped areas of Antarctica and collect geological samples. Taylor had led another Western Journey during the first sledging season in 1910, at the same time as Scott was laying depots for his Southern Journey. A seperate scientific party, called the Northern Party, under the command of Victor Campbell, explored Victoria Land. Scott also allowed three members of his Southern Journey team - Dr Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, and Apsley Cherry-Garrard - to undertake a dangerous journey in Winter to Cape Crozier to gather the eggs of the Emperor Penguin.

Scott's Polar Party also stopped at various times on the journey to conduct experiments and collect samples. He allowed Dr Edward Wilson, an accomplished artist, to stop at several locations to draw sketches which might be of scientific value, while Henry Bowers, Frank Debenham, and Scott himself took lessons in Photography while in Antarctica so as to be able to take photographs for analysis by scientists back in Britain. Even when they faced a desperate fight for survival on the return journey, and equipment had to be jettisoned to lighten the load of their sledge, Scott refused to abandon Wilson's sketches, the photographs, or the geological samples they had collected along the way. So, in summary, Scott was trying to get to the South Pole, but it was only one part of a much bigger program of exploration and scientific discovery.