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Discovery Expedition
The
British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04
, generally known as the
Discovery
Expedition
, was the first official British exploration of the
Antarctic
regions since
James Clark Ross's
voyage sixty years earlier. Organized on a large scale under a joint committee of the
Royal Society
and the
Royal Geographical Society
(RGS), the new expedition aimed to carry out scientific research and geographical exploration in what was then largely an untouched continent. It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
, including
Robert Falcon Scott
who led the expedition,
Ernest Shackleton
,
Edward Wilson
,
Frank Wild
,
Tom Crean
and
William Lashly
.
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