Did Scott make it to the south pole?

Answer 1

In a sense, yes. In 1907, Mawson joined an expedition to Antarctica led by Ernest Shackleton, as a scientific officer, and was one of the first to ascend Mount Erebus and get close to the magnetic South Pole. Australian geologists Professor Edgeworth David and Sir Douglas Mawson, together with naval surgeon Alistair Mackay, were the first to reach the magnetic South Pole on 16 January 1909. They were members of Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition. Having found the spot where Mawson's compass pointed directly into the ground, the men raised the British flag and claimed the immediate surrounding Victoria Land for the British Crown.

However, Mawson is actually better known for naming and charting parts of Antarctica. On his own expedition later, Mawson reached and named Commonwealth Bay, on 7 January 1912. In 1929-1930, he led the British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition. This expedition mapped the Antarctic coastline, and Mac Robertson land and Princess Elizabeth Land, which ultimately became the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Answer 2

Yes Scott did make it to the South Pole but he died when returning from his journey.