A notebook from the doomed
1912 expedition to the South Pole led by British explorer Robert
Falcon Scott has been found, the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage
Trust announced.
The 1911 notebook belonging to surgeon and zoologist George
Murray Levick emerged at the Scott expedition's Terra Nova hut
in Antarctica during a summer melt of 2013. The notebook had
been trapped in the ice for more than a century. The heritage
trust said each page of the notebook was conserved before being
reassembled and sewn back together.
Scott and his party reached the South Pole on January 17,
1912 only to find that Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen had got
there a month prior. Scott and his companions died of
exhaustion, hunger and extreme cold during their return to base
camp.
Levick was in a separate party that remained north to make
scientific observations. He survived the expedition and died in
1956.
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