Around the Antarctic base of Scott’s expedition, the summer melt can reveal long-hidden objects. In 2012, she revealed a notebook belonging to George Murray Levick, surgeon, zoologist and photographer. His name is still on the first pages. This small volume had spent more than a century in ice and water.
It contains pencil notes on photographs taken in 1911: subjects, dates and exhibition indications. The interest goes beyond the emotion of discovery. Specialists were able to reconcile some annotations of photographs held at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. An object found on the spot came to specify a collection kept elsewhere.
The binding had suffered: the pages were separated, digitized, preserved and then put together. The restored notebook then moved to Antarctica. It was not Scott’s personal diary, but a working tool for Levick. The most valuable return was not just that of paper: images had regained their information.
What we know
Discovered in 2012; owner: Levick, not Scott.
To go to the source
References consulted on September 21, 2026. Linked pages may be in another language.
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