Great Scott - Another artefact from the great south journey? A hundred years after Scott and four members his ill-fated expedition died on their return journey from the South Pole, researchers are STILL locating artefacts that add clarity and richness to the explorers’ discoveries. A notebook written by George Murray Levick – a surgeon, zoologist and photographer – has been found encased in ice in an Antarctic hut, and, says the Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Nigel Watson it contains entries on photographs he took of an Adelie penguin rookery in 1911 at Cape Adare. (As of June 2012, this has been the only study of the Cape Adare rookery - the largest Adélie Penguin colony in the world - and he is still the only person to have ever spent an entire breeding cycle there.) The journal also contains dates, subjects and exposure details, and was written before the party faced harsh conditions of their own and had to spend the Antarctic winter living in an ice cave added Watson. “It’s an exciting find. The notebook is a missing part of the official expedition record and, after spending seven years conserving Scott’s last expedition building and collection, we are delighted to still be finding new artefacts. He said adding that the book was restored and then returned to Scott’s last expedition base at Cape Evans, Antarctica. Oh and Levick? On his return from the Pole, Levick served in the Grand Fleet and at Gallipoli in the First World War. After his retirement he pioneered the training of blind people in physiotherapy and in 1932, he founded the Public Schools Exploring Society, which took groups of schoolboys to Scandinavia and Canada, of which he remained President until his death in June 1956. .huffingtonpost/2014/10/23/antarctic-notebook-in-ice_n_6033028.html?&ir=Green&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000048
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:27:03 +0000
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