Photos: Notebook from Antarctic Quest Found After 100 Years

When snow and ice thawed during the Antarctic summer last year, a notebook was revealed near the century-old base camp that British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott established at Cape Evans. Conservationists restored the book — a photo diary from the surgeon and zoologist named George Murray Levick, who was part of Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition from 1910 to 1913.

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Levick was part of Scott's Northern Party stationed at Cape Adare, which is famous for its colony of Adélie penguins. The Northern Party was stranded at Cape Adare during the winter of 1912, and they survived in a snow cave. That same year, Scott died on his way back from his trek to the South Pole. Levick is shown here smoking a pipe and reading on his bunk in the hut at Cape Adare. He noted this self-portrait in his photo diary. (Credit: © Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

Megan has been writing for Live Science and Space.com since 2012. Her interests range from archaeology to space exploration, and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University. Megan spent two years as a reporter on the national desk at NewsCore. She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.