Captain Scott 1901 Antarctic Expedition Signed Rare ppc

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You are bidding on one Rare picture post card 1901 British National Antarctic Expedition of the "Discovery", canc. "Antarctic S.S. Discovery" 1901 Signed by the Famous Antarctic Explorer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R.N., posted from London to Ireland and franked with GB 1p adhesive, Until the end of the 19th century. only sealers and whalers had set foot on the desolate southern land we call Antarctica. Until as late as 1820, no one had ever seen its mainland. In the 1890s however, explorers of various countries began to compete for being the first to reach both the North and the South Poles. In 1901-04 Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) was the first person to explore Antarctica extensively by land. Antarctica is an enormous continent. Britain could fit into it more than 50 times. More than 99% of it is covered by ice. In places, this ice is more three miles thick. Antarctica is completely surrounded by the vast Southern Ocean, half of which freezes in winter. It is high, windy and extremely cold. T is no indigenous human population and no life forms at all except around the coast. More than 2000 years ago, Greek writers described a large mass of land in the south of the world. Even though they had never seen it, they believed it must exist so that it could 'balance' the land they knew about in the northern half of the read more

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