Centenary of 'vital' Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates reached the South Pole. They died attempting to return
Cambridge University founded the Scott Polar Research Institute 100 years ago using £6,000 of the £76,000 raised.Institute director Julian Dowdeswell said the"expedition provides an early template for inter-disciplinary and collaborative scientific research in Antarctica"The Scott Polar Research Institute was founded by Cambridge University in 1920.
But the 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition was also the largest-ever research mission to the pole, involving 12 scientists. "Their observations are a century-old baseline against which contemporary change can be measured," said institute director Prof Julian DowdeswellScott's widow, the sculptor Kathleen Scott, and their son Peter at the institute.
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