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1100-year-old notebook from Antarctic expedition
found frozen in ice
2Explorer Robert Falcon Scott died in 1912 while
crossing Antarctica, but his story lives on in
artifacts that continue to be discovered on the
frozen continent. The most recent find a
century-old photographer's notebook in the ice at
one of Scott's expedition bases in Antarctica.
The notebook belonged to George Murray Levick, a
surgeon and photographer who was part of Scott's
expedition. It contains pencil notes about photos
he took. The notebook was found in January 2013
at a an expedition base after the summer snow
melt around a building exposed it. It has taken
almost two more years (Oct. 2014) to digitally
record, conserve, and rebind the notebook to its
original format. "It's an exciting find," said
Nigel Watson, director of the Antarctic Heritage
Trust. "The notebook is a missing part of the
official expedition record. We are delighted to
still be finding new artifacts. Scott was a
British explorer who became famous during what
historians call the heroic age of Antarctic
exploration. He arrived at the South Pole in
January 1912 to discover that his rival,
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, had beaten him
to the spot by an estimated 33 days.
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