100-Year-Old Notebook From Robert Falcon Scott’s Ill-Fated Antarctic Expedition Discovered in Antarctica

Levick Notebook Found in Antarctica
photo via Antarctic Heritage Trust

Last year, a notebook belonging to a member of the Terra Nova Expedition, the ill-fated final Antarctic expedition of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, was discovered near Scott’s Hut in Antarctica. Dating from 1911, the notebook belonged to George Murray Levick, a British explorer, photographer, and surgeon. It contains Levick’s photography notes from the first stage of the expedition. Levick would go on to serve in both World War I and World War II before dying in 1956 — Scott and his exploration party would perish during a failed attempt to be the first explorers to reach the South Pole (he was preceded by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen). The notebook was restored by the Antarctic Heritage Trust in New Zealand, and has been returned to Scott’s Hut.

Levick Notebook Found in Antarctica
photo via Antarctic Heritage Trust

Levick Notebook Found in Antarctica
George Murray Levick self-portrait. Photo via Scott Polar Research Institute

images via Antarctic Heritage Trust

via Radio New Zealand News, PetaPixel

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