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This song was written as a tribute to British Captain Robert F. Scott's failed attempt to be the first person to reach the South Pole in December 1911. Scott was beat by Roald Amundsen several days earlier and Scott's expedition met their deaths on the way back.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
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