Sunday 26 February 2012

Watch the SS Terra Nova Leaving Harbour Towards the South Pole, 1910

2012 sees the 100th anniversary of the deaths of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the rest of the Polar Party after reaching the South Pole, beaten by the Norwegian team under Amundsen. This film clip shows their ship, the SS Terra Nova, leaving harbour in New Zealand in 1910, the last the world saw of Scott before hearing of what happened two years later


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