Letters from 1901 Antarctic explorers show warm feelings for their earlier hosts in New Zealand

A long-forgotten group of letters written by senior members of Scott and Shackleton’s first trailblazing 1901 expedition to the Antarctic has been discovered.

They were found in a Cornish Edwardian house built by descendants of the Waymouth family, to whom …

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