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| Ernest Henry Shackleton, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson |
On this day (March 29) 100 years ago, Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott scrawled his last entry into the diary he had kept since the start of his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. “I do not think we can hope for any better things. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God’s sake look after our people.”
According to this BBC link, he dined on stewed penguin and champagne during this final trip. Seal meat (curried, fried or in soup) plus salted almonds, turtle soup, roast beef, and crystallised ginger featured on the menu. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17371543
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