The English expedition to the South Pole under the leadership of Captain Robert Scott wrote tragic pages in the history of knowledge and the discovery of the Earth by man in 1910-1912. The diaries of a polar traveler, his farewell letters addressed to family, friends, and English society, found on the chest of a frozen explorer, tell not only about dramatic events, but also about the greatness of the human spirit, about how people discovered and conquered the South Pole, learned Southern continent - Antarctica. Illustrations and maps reproduced in the publication are taken from the English two-volume book dedicated to the second and last expedition of Robert Scott and his comrades.