Captain Scott

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Emperor penguins drawn by Dr Edward Wilson on board the Terra Nova, Credit: None

Exhibition reunites artworks from Captain Scott’s final expedition – a century on

01 Aug 2016

A new exhibition has reunited the iconic photography of Herbert Ponting with the watercolours of Edward Wilson – more than a century after the two...

Kathleen Scott pictured with her husband Captain Robert Falcon Scott, 1910, Credit: The National Library of New Zealand

Diaries of Captain Scott's widow secured by Cambridge University Library

26 Apr 2016

The diaries of Captain Scott’s widow – and the papers of her second husband, Lord Kennet – will be made accessible to researchers at Cambridge...

Head of an albatross caught on Sep. 22 1901 by Edward Adrian Wilson

“Albatross!” The legendary giant seabird

01 Jun 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, A is for...

Camp under the Wild Mountains, Beardmore Glacier, 20 December 1911 (“View of snow covered mountain range, with camp scene in foreground. Three pyramid tents and men sitting on sledge.”), Credit: SPRI P2012/5/109

Captain Scott’s 'lost' photographic negatives saved for the nation

31 Mar 2014

The Scott Polar Research Institute’s urgent appeal to save historic Antarctic negatives taken by Captain Scott in 1911 has been successful.

Examples of negatives of photographs taken by Captain R.F. Scott on the 1911 British Antarctic Expedition

Sir Ranulph Fiennes steps in to help save Captain Scott’s polar negatives for the nation

07 Mar 2014

The Scott Polar Research Institute has launched an appeal to save Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ‘lost’ polar negatives. A last minute stay of...

Line of men and ponies pulling laden sledges on the ice, Credit: SPRI P2012/5/56

Race against time to save Captain Scott’s ‘lost’ photographic negatives

11 Feb 2014

An urgent appeal to save 113 photographic negatives taken by Captain Scott has been launched today (February 11) by the University of Cambridge’s...

Captain Scott writing in his Antarctic hut, before the expedition that cost him his life, Credit: Scott Polar Research Institute

Last letter of Captain Scott finally revealed in full - 101 years on

29 Mar 2013

A letter written by the dying Captain Scott - one of only two remaining in private hands - can be revealed in full for the first time after being...

Heroic Age campsite location discovered near summit of Antarctic volcano

14 Dec 2012

A century after members of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition climbed Mount Erebus, the University of Cambridge’s Professor Clive Oppenheimer has...

This photograph is a composite image made by Ponting to capture the desolation of the Polar Party.

Final letters mark centenary of Scott’s last march

12 Nov 2012

A new collection of the last letters of Captain Scott and the Pole Party has been released to mark the centenary of the discovery of their bodies in...