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Scott of the Antarctic

December 2022

  • Panels from the graphic novel version of The Worst Journey in the World by Sarah Airriess.

    Terror in the Antarctic: graphic novels revisit the horror of the ‘worst journey in the world’

    A century on from the publication of Cherry Apsley-Garrard’s classic book about Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition, a new graphic novel version revisits his terrible tale

April 2022

  • Captain Scott, centre, at the South Pole. scott_g2p2_2710jw

    Brief letters
    The icy pull of tragic polar exploration

    Brief letters: A fascination with tragic heroes | Is artificial intelligence an oxymoron? | Orwell’s linguistic inventions | From Granny to Mum to Mumma | Sailing to San Serriffe

March 2022

  • The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

    BBCSO/Brabbins: Scott of the Antarctic review – astonishing orchestration is superbly played

    Vaughan Williams’s score performed as a live accompaniment to a beautifully restored print of the 1948 movie is incredibly powerful and at times extraordinarily moving

December 2019

  • Back at base camp, other members of the Terra Nova expedition mark Christmas Day 1911 in slightly better conditions: petty officer Robert Forde, ski expert Tryggve Gran, geologists Frank Debenham and T Griffith Taylor.

    Weatherwatch
    South with Scott: Christmas Day in Antarctica

    Admiral Lord Mountevans in his memoirs recalls an extreme white Christmas on the expedition in 1911

May 2019

  • Cheap edition of David Copperfield taken by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his men on the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica in 1910 (Scott split his men into two groups, one of which, containing geologist Raymond E Priestley, was stranded and lived in an ice cave for seven months. They read a chapter of this copy every night for sixty nights. Priestley wrote that, when they had finished the book, they were ‘very sorry to part with him’. Unlike Scott, Priestley and his group survived the expedition but never reached the South Pole).

    Dickens novel that joined Captain Scott on doomed expedition goes on display

    Book read by Scott’s men over 60 nights while hiding in an Antarctic ice cave forms part of new Charles Dickens exhibition

December 2018

  • The research team is using the ice-breaker SA Agulhas to reach the Larsen C ice shelf

    Antarctic expedition sets out to map Larsen C ice shelf

  • Gran Tryggve.

    Antarctic diary records horror at finding Captain Scott's body

November 2017

  • From left: Lawrence Oates, Henry Bowers, Captain Scott, Edward Wilson and Edgar Evans.

    Tired, frozen, beaten: image of Captain Scott’s expedition that foretold a tragedy

    As a photograph from the ill-starred race to the South Pole goes to auction this week, we look at the reasons for the sad failure of Scott’s men to return

March 2017

  • A dog team near the ice-bound British National Antarctic Expedition ship RRS Discovery, circa 1903.

    From the Guardian archive
    News from Captain Scott's Discovery expedition to the Antarctic – archive, 1903

    30 March 1903: The expedition was caught in blizzards and dense fog, Ernest Shackleton burst a blood vessel in one of his lungs, while some men showed symptoms of scurvy

May 2016

  • Surreal Estate: Hop House, a former brewery in Holcombe, Somerset.

    Surreal estate
    Great Scott! A brewery that's worth exploring – in pictures

    Hop in for a pint of polar history in this converted family home, once a brewery run and lived in by the parents of Scott of the Antarctic

February 2016

  • Terra Nova Expedition<br>Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) celebrates his 43rd birthday at camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during his Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 6th June 1911. Scott is at the head of the table. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Heroic Failure and the British by Stephanie Barczewski review – why have the defeated been prized in the UK?

    From the Charge of the Light Brigade to the failed explorations of Scott and David Livingstone, a fascinating exploration of why defeats and retreats became cherished examples of the British spirit

November 2014

  • Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Polar ice packs in Nansen’s Arctic schooner

    Tim Radford Polar ice packs in Nansen’s Arctic schooner

October 2014

  • George Murray Levick

    Thaw reveals photographer’s notebook from Captain Scott’s Antarctic hut

    Notebook belonging to George Murray Levick remarkably legible after conservation work, with find blamed on global warming

March 2014

  • Herbert Ponting working in Antarctic conditions, Cape Evans, October 1911.

    Lost photographs from Scott of the Antarctic's doomed expedition

  • Scott's 1911 expedition, ponies

    Race to save Scott's images of doomed Antarctic trek from auction sale

January 2014

  • Pictures from the past
    Captain Scott's hut - a picture from the past

    Sleeping quarters in the hut at Cape Evans, Antarctica, taken by Herbert Ponting, official photographer for the Terra Nova expedition

December 2013

  • The Last March, Tinder

    The Last March – review

    This affectionate send-up of Scott's expedition to the south pole has fine comic moments, but feels unfinished, says Lyn Gardner

July 2013

  • Emperor penguin eggs collected in Antarctic

    Animal magic
    The worst egg hunt in the world

    Three emperor penguin eggs are a poignant reminder of the 'worst journey in the world' more than 100 years ago

March 2013

  • Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

    Captain Scott letter goes on display on anniversary of his death

    Scott defends himself against charge he was too old to lead Antarctic expedition, in letter to former commanding officer

December 2012

  • Pictures from the past
    The British polar team find Amundsen's tent - picture of the day

    A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. On 14 December 1911 the Norwegian polar team led by Roald Amundsen won the race for the South Pole. This photograph taken on 18 January 1912 shows the British team having arrived at the Pole only to be greeted by the Norwegian's tent

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