Scott's Last Expedition
 Natural History Museum, London 2011.jpg "One of the three emperor penguin eggs collected on the winter journey, 1911. Team members Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers and Cherry-Garrard travelled in the middle of the freezing Antarctic winter to the emperor penguin colony at Cape Crozier to collect the eggs, which Wilson hoped could shed light on the evolutionary link between birds and reptiles")
One hundred years ago this month, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party of men reached the south pole only to find that they had been beaten to their destination by a Norwegian team led by explorer Roald Amundsen.
A new exhibition commemorating the event and celebrating its scientific achievements is opening at the Natural History Museum in London. It reunites for the first time artefacts used by Scott and his team, together with scientific specimens collected on the 1910–13 expedition.
Scott's Last Expedition is on show from 20 January–2 September 2012 at the Natural History Museum, London. To book tickets or for more information, visit the Natural History Museum website.
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