Antarctica
Learn more about the region Scott strove to conquer.
Antarctica is one of the most hostile places on Earth, yet it holds a strong attraction for adventurers and explorers. Find out some little-known facts about the region to tie in with our Scott's Last Expedition exhibition.
What's it like to live and work in Antarctica?
The Antarctic Heritage Trust is conserving the huts and artefacts from 4 major Antarctic expeditions, including those used by Scott 100 years ago. Their blog documents what it's like to live and work throughout the year on the frozen continent.
Read the Antarctic conservation blog
Antarctic heritage and conservation
Captain Scott's hut at Cape Evans has been seemingly frozen in time since the Terra Nova team departed in January 1913. Sir David Attenborough introduces this video about the work being done to conserve the artefacts of the intrepid explorers who lived there.
Watch the video about Scott's hut
The Terra Nova expedition through Scott's eyes
Unseen, and largely forgotten, photographs taken by Captain Scott during the last fateful months of his epic Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole have been published in a new book, The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott.
Buy the book online at the Museum shop
Antarctica in pictures
From the century-old explorers' huts and the local wildlife, to the expansive white landscapes and spectacular aerial light displays.
View a slideshow of images of Antarctica
Get to know Antarctica
Check the location of Scott's Base, McMurdo Station, Mount Erebus and many more places related to the Scott and Shackleton polar expeditions.
View maps of Antarctica
Wilson's influential art
See how Dr Edward Wilson's sketches and paintings assisted the study of specimens collected on the Terra Nova expedition and helped transform modern wildlife painting.
Watch the video about Wilson's watercolours
The worst journey in the world
Find out how Scott's men, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Henry Bowers and Edward Wilson, risked their lives to collect emperor penguin eggs in the middle of the Antarctic winter during the Terra Nova expedition.
Watch the video about the winter journey
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