This week marks 105 years since Robert Falcon Scott and his crew left Lyttleton for Antarctica on the Terra Nova. While this expedition came to a tragic end, Scott’s team, along with fellow explorers Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, will always remain the heroes of Antarctic exploration.
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Image credit: MB1051, Charles Chilton Photographs, Ref. 16710, Lyttleton, Terra Nova – Robert Falcon Scott’s Ship, 1910, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.