Robert Scott was an exp
lorer from the United Kingdom. He along with his team died on his second expedition to the Antarctic. The reasons for their death are supposed to be starvation, extremely cold weather and exhaustion. After over 100 years after their death, an artifact from his journey of 1910-1913 has surfaced.
Newzealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust said in a statement that a notebook from Robert Scott’s last journey was found trapped in ice. On the basis of the texts written on the starting pages, the newly found notebook was owned by George Murray Levick. Levick was a zoologist, photographer and surgeon and was a part of Scott’s 1910-1913 voyage to the Antarctic. He was one of the six members of the Northern Party of the expedition.
Terra Nova expedition broke up into two groups when they reached the Antarctic. Scott’s party hit the South pole on 17th January 1912 while Levick’s group journeyed along the coast and conducted scientific observations. Pack ice prevented their ship from picking the party and Levick along with his team got stuck in an ice cave on Inexpressible Island. The group, unlike Scott’s, survived by eating local wildlife like penguins. His photography notebook titled ‘Wellcome Photographic Exposure Record and Dairy 1910’ was discovered from the 1911 Terra Nova base at Cape Evans. The notebook was found outside of a hut built by the Trust’s conservationist specialists when ice melted the previous year’s summer. The notebook remained under covers of ice for over 100 years. It has entries that could provide details on the photographs taken by Levick in 1911 at Cape Adare. Dates are written on it, the subjects given and exposure details are quoted on the notebook. The Trust said that the entries date before the time when the team had to deal with harsh weather conditions on the Inexpressible Island. Bindings are dissolved due to damage by ice and water but The Trust had repaired it and sent to Antarctica.
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