Who are Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott?

Answer 1

Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912) was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition and the Terra Nova Expedition, during which Captain Scott died.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 - 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Answer 2

Ernest Shackleton was an Irish explorer who led expeditions to the Antarctic. He is best known for his failed 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, where he and his crew survived against incredible odds. Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer who made two expeditions to the Antarctic, with his most famous being the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition in 1910-1913, where he and his team died during their return journey from the South Pole.