ILLUSTRATIONS INSERT
George Murray Levick, Surgeon Commander, in full dress uniform, World War I. Photo from the British Exploring Society, London, UK.
Lloyd Spencer Davis onboard the Shokalskiy. Photo from Scott Davis, ScottDavisImages.com.
Levick’s home, Budleigh Salterton. Photo from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Murray Levick, self-portrait, on skis near Cape Adare. Photo from the British Exploring Society, London, UK.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard visits the Levicks, 1926. Left to right: Audrey Levick, Murray Levick, Rodney Levick, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Cherry-Garrard’s companion. Photo reproduced with the permission of the East Sussex Record Office, all rights reserved.
Roald Amundsen in Hobart, Australia, March 1912, after becoming the first person to reach the South Pole. Photo from The Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Amundsen’s house, Uranienborg, Norway. Photo from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Emerging from the snow cave, September 1912. Left to right: Abbott, Campbell, Dickason.
Left to right: Priestley, Levick, Browning. Photos from Victor Campbell’s album, reproduced with the permission of the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada.
Base camp of the Public Schools Exploring Society 1937 Expedition to Trout River, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada. Photo from the British Exploring Society, London, UK.
Cover of Levick’s Zoological Notes. Photo from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Pair of Adelie penguins photographed by Levick engaging in mutual calling. Photo from Victor Campbell’s album: reproduced with the permission of the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada.
Fridtjof Nansen, 1896. Photo from The Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Nansen’s desk with picture of his wife, Eva, on the left. Photo from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Nansen’s home, Polhøgda.
Nansen’s study at the top of the tower in Polhøgda. Both photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Sketches by Victor Campbell. Pair of Adelie penguins on nest of stones.
Sketches by Victor Campbell. Pair of Adelie penguins with two chicks on nest.
Sketches by Victor Campbell. The Terra Nova in Robertson Bay, Cape Adare, with Admiralty Range behind.
Sketches by Victor Campbell. The meeting of the Terra Nova and Fram in the Bay of Whales. All images reproduced with the permission of the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada.
Adelie penguin on ice floe, Cape Royds.
Borchgrevink’s hut and storeroom (without roof), Cape Adare. The remains of the Northern Party’s hut are just visible to the left of Borchgrevink’s. Both photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Sketch by Victor Campbell of courting Adelie penguins engaged in a mutual display. Image reproduced with the permission of the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada.
Carsten Borchgrevink, 1897, the first person to stand on Antarctica and the first to winter over on the Antarctic continent. Photo from The Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Inside the Cape Adare hut. Left to right: Abbott, Campbell, Browning, Levick, Priestley (Dickason obscured). Photo from Victor Campbell’s album, reproduced with the permission of the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada.
Inside Shackleton’s hut, Cape Royds.
Provisions left behind, Shackleton’s hut.
Wall of Shackleton’s hut with photos of Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Scott’s Hut Point hut, McMurdo Sound.
Boxes from the Terra Nova expedition left in the Hut Point hut.
Cooking area, Hut Point hut. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Mount Melbourne, Terra Nova Bay.
Shackleton’s hut, Cape Royds, and Mount Erebus.
Scott’s hut, Cape Evans. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Scott’s bed, Cape Evans hut.
Lloyd Spencer Davis sitting in Levick’s chair in his house in Budleigh Salterton, surrounded by his photographs from Cape Adare and his skis.
Adelie penguins mating. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Adelie penguins on base of iceberg near the Drygalski Ice Tongue.
Adelie penguins resting on iceberg, Cape Adare. Both photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
The beach at Budleigh Salterton.
Douglas Russell with the unpublished 1915 manuscript by Murray Levick that he discovered. Both photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
An Adelie penguin after escaping the jaws of a leopard seal.
An Adelie penguin with a stone.
A male Adelie penguin performing an ecstatic display, Cape Bird.
An emperor penguin walking in front of ice cliffs, Terra Nova Bay. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
A feeding chase: an Adelie penguin is pursued by its two chicks.
Joseph Hatch’s discarded digesters amidst a colony of King penguins, Macquarie Island.
A Weddell seal, Terra Nova Bay. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Adelie penguins and chicks, Cape Crozier colony. The icebergs B-15A and C-16 stretch across the horizon and beyond.
Leopard seal sleeping on an ice floe with the Shokalskiy behind. Both photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Leopard seal attacking fledgling Adelie penguin chicks, Cape Adare.
An adult Adelie penguin lunges at a skua attacking a crèche of chicks.
South Polar skua in attack mode. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Remains of an Adelie penguin chick after being eaten by skuas.
A skua dragging an Adelie penguin chick away from the safety of the crèche. Both photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
An Adelie penguin porpoising.
Two of the “winter eggs” of Emperor penguins deposited at the British Museum of Natural History by Apsley Cherry-Garrard after “The Worst Journey in the World.”
The Ross Ice Shelf with Cape Crozier and Mount Terror visible behind.
An Adelie penguin, caught and preserved by Murray Levick and deposited at the British Museum of Natural History. All photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Statue of Roald Amundsen on the banks of Bunnefjorden, Norway.
Memorial cross for Scott’s Polar Party atop Observation Hill overlooking the American base of McMurdo. Both photos from Lloyd Spencer Davis.