High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1912), officially the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, was led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Scott and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, to find that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 33 days. Scott`s entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were discovered by a search party eight months later.