Scott and his rival Sir Ernest Shackleton, over the space of a decade, both led expeditions battling to become the first to reach the South Pole, to chart and map the interior of Antarctica, a place we knew less about, at the time, than the surface of the moon, because we could see the moon through telescopes.
斯科特 和竞争者欧内斯特·沙克尔顿爵士， 在十多年里， 都力争成为第一个抵达南极点、 第一个画出南极内陆地图的人。 那时我们对那片土地知之甚少， -甚至不及月球表面。 因为我们能从望远镜看到月球，