SCOTT’S LAST VOYAGE
Large Audience Sees Film A 53-year-old film of Scott’s last voyage to Antarctica, shown by the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Antarctic Society to a large audience in the Lady Wigram Hall as part of the Antarctic Week celebrations, gave a vivid and moving picture of that fateful journey. The film, taken by Herbert G. Ponting and entitled "90 Degrees South,” showed the start of the expedition on June 1, 1910, and the departure of the Terra Nova from Lyttelton on November 29. There were entertaining scenes of seal and penguin life, as well as scenes show-
ing the rigours of polar travel. The words Scott wrote as hjs death drew near made a poignant commentary during the closing scenes of the film, which showed a rocky cairn —the burial place of Scott. Wilson, and Bowers. A shorter film of the Australian expedition to Mawson in 1958 showed the advances that had been made with Antarctic transport.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30288, 14 November 1963, Page 26
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