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The diary of a member of the expedition of the British explorer Robert Scott in Antarctica has been found a century after it became trapped in the ice of the white continent, he announced a New Zealand institution.
The diary belonged to the scientist George Murray Levick and was discovered near the base which established Scott Terra Nova in 1911, during the thaw last summer. Although the notebook has suffered water damage throughout its buried in the ice, in general, the notes are legible century Levick said the director of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Foundation, Nigel Watson.
"It is an incredible find. The notebook is a part of the official record of the expedition," he said. "We are delighted to still find new items after seven years trying to preserve the last building and the collection of Scott's expedition."
The pages of the notebook traveled to New Zealand, where they were treated individually and bound again. After they have returned to Antarctica, where the fund is working to preserve five sites used by Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Edmund Hillary explorers.
Scott's expedition split into two groups to reach Antarctica. He reached the South Pole on January 17, 1912, a month after he did the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Scott and his companions died shortly after cold and hunger.
Levick was in the other group, who traveled along the coast to make scientific observations but were stuck at base camp because of ice. The six men survived the Antarctic winter refuge in a cave dug into the ice and eating what they could, among other things, penguins and seals. The foundation has also found bottles of whiskey Shackleton 1907-08 and negative lost its foray into the Ross Sea in 1914-1917. A Scottish distillery has analyzed whiskey Shackleton and was surprised by his unexpected delicacy "with a touch of smoke on the palate" and re-created the drink for a limited edition of 50,000 drinks sold more than 100 pounds ($ 160) the piece.
- Penguins depraved -
Instead, notebook notes are quite banal Levick collect as dates, issues and details of the photographs he had taken. The notes correspond to the drawings from the collection of the work of Levick the Scott Polar Research Institute of Britain's University of Cambridge.
Much more interesting is a scientific essay he wrote entitled 'sexual habits Penguin Adelaide', which was lost until researchers at the Natural History Museum found in 2012. In it he describes the habits "depraved" of these penguins, as some have homosexual behavior and other males tried to mate with the bodies of dead females. Levick was so horrified by the behavior of penguins who wrote some of the observations in Greek for the average reader could not understand it. In fact, his essay was distributed among some experts but was never publicly disclosed.
After surviving in Antarctica, Levick took part in the bloody battle of Gallipoli during World War I and worked in the service of British military intelligence in World War II. He died in 1956.
The diary belonged to the scientist George Murray Levick and was discovered near the base which established Scott Terra Nova in 1911, during the thaw last summer. Although the notebook has suffered water damage throughout its buried in the ice, in general, the notes are legible century Levick said the director of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Foundation, Nigel Watson.
"It is an incredible find. The notebook is a part of the official record of the expedition," he said. "We are delighted to still find new items after seven years trying to preserve the last building and the collection of Scott's expedition."
The pages of the notebook traveled to New Zealand, where they were treated individually and bound again. After they have returned to Antarctica, where the fund is working to preserve five sites used by Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Edmund Hillary explorers.
Scott's expedition split into two groups to reach Antarctica. He reached the South Pole on January 17, 1912, a month after he did the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Scott and his companions died shortly after cold and hunger.
Levick was in the other group, who traveled along the coast to make scientific observations but were stuck at base camp because of ice. The six men survived the Antarctic winter refuge in a cave dug into the ice and eating what they could, among other things, penguins and seals. The foundation has also found bottles of whiskey Shackleton 1907-08 and negative lost its foray into the Ross Sea in 1914-1917. A Scottish distillery has analyzed whiskey Shackleton and was surprised by his unexpected delicacy "with a touch of smoke on the palate" and re-created the drink for a limited edition of 50,000 drinks sold more than 100 pounds ($ 160) the piece.
- Penguins depraved -
Instead, notebook notes are quite banal Levick collect as dates, issues and details of the photographs he had taken. The notes correspond to the drawings from the collection of the work of Levick the Scott Polar Research Institute of Britain's University of Cambridge.
Much more interesting is a scientific essay he wrote entitled 'sexual habits Penguin Adelaide', which was lost until researchers at the Natural History Museum found in 2012. In it he describes the habits "depraved" of these penguins, as some have homosexual behavior and other males tried to mate with the bodies of dead females. Levick was so horrified by the behavior of penguins who wrote some of the observations in Greek for the average reader could not understand it. In fact, his essay was distributed among some experts but was never publicly disclosed.
After surviving in Antarctica, Levick took part in the bloody battle of Gallipoli during World War I and worked in the service of British military intelligence in World War II. He died in 1956.
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