THE TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION

Terra Nova (en.wikipedia.org)

The Terra Nova leaving port for her trip to the South Pole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8aNabrWL8

“Dear old Dad and Mother, The end has come. Death has no terrors for me.—-we have struggled against very heavy odds to the bitter end. Two of the five of us are already dead and we three are nearly done up.”  Edward Wilson scrawled these words across water stained paper on the 22nd March 1912 in a final letter to his parents. Edward Atkinson discovered the letter nine months later in the tent Wilson and his remaining team perished in – thus ended the heroic attempt by Scott and his men to reach the South Pole in 1912. read more