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The Route

The-Expedition-Party
The Expedition Party

Scott aimed to follow the route Shackleton had pioneered towards the Pole, up the Beardmore Glacier.

He laid depots on the southern route early in the year, although his motor sledges failed and his ponies suffered.

The result was that his main ‘One Ton’ depot was not as far south as he intended. This had dire consequences for his return journey from the Pole.

November 1st 1911

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Swansea – A Photographer’s Dream
In ‘Swansea – A photographer’s Dream’ Colin Riddle’s pictures of Swansea in the 1960s represent images of a lost age, and though much of what he photographed still exists for the keen historian to seek out, much has also disappeared.

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