Lawrence Oates Quotes
I am just going outside and may be some time.
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| Birth: | 17th March, 1880 |
| Death: | 16th March, 1912 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Explorer |
Lawrence Oates was an English cavalry officer with the 6th Dragoons, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died during the Terra Nova Expedition. Oates, afflicted with gangrene and frostbite, walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware that his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death.
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