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Captain Scott's 'lost' Antarctic pictures saved for the nation
A Cambridge University museum has successfully raised more than a quarter of a million pounds to buy a collection of photo negatives of Captain Scott's doomed South Pole expedition
Previously unseen images of Captain Scott on his ill-fated polar expedition have been saved for the nation after a major fundraising campaign.
A mystery owner gave Cambridge University until March 25 to raise £275,000 to buy the photo negatives before they were put up for auction, which would almost certainly have seen them snapped up by a foreign bidder and lost to Britain and the public forever.
The Polar Museum at Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) has now raised the funds to keep the 113 images which were taken towards the end of 1911 just weeks before Captain Scott’s final Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole ran into disaster.
The collection is described as an "extraordinary visual record" of the trek during which Scott and his four companions died on their return from being beaten to the Earth’s southernmost point by Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
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Daily Telegraph
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From memory, twenty free articles per month. A friend tells me that clearing your cache and deleting cookies might 'help'. I really will have to speak to the chap. He's most disreputable.