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anchor0057@yahoo.com - 30 Jan 2006 22:27 GMT

I have what may sound like a bit of a queer question regarding Captain
Robert F. Scott, but I have a reason for asking. I know that he and his
party met their end in 1912 while returning from the south pole. Their
tent was found later and was butied under a memorial marker. I have
seen at least one site state that the marker was still there on the
ice, and that Scott and company were buried underneath. But I haven't
been able to confirm it. It seems likely that the ice may have shifted
by then, so I am uncertain whether the marker has been carried to the
coast. Does anybody know any information about this? Is R.F. Scott
still buried in the Antarctic, and is the marker still on the ice
sheet? Or has he since been interred in some other location?

If you would, please reply via posting. Thank you.

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Bob

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John Dean - 30 Jan 2006 23:46 GMT

> I have what may sound like a bit of a queer question regarding Captain
> Robert F. Scott, but I have a reason for asking. I know that he and
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> If you would, please reply via posting. Thank you.

According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott

"The relief party that found Scott and his comrades six months after
they died built a cairn to mark the spot where they perished. Scott and
his colleagues died on a glacier which inched its way towards the sea.
In the 1970s, Sir Peter Scott, the only son of Capt Scott visited the
cairn. A few months later, the remains of Scott and his comrades fell
into the ocean."

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anchor0057@yahoo.com - 31 Jan 2006 18:25 GMT

> According to Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falcon_Scott

Interesting factoid. Thank you.

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Bob

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Robert F. Scott question