By: Christina Harrison - 17/01/2012 Today marks the 100th
anniversary of the day Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team
reached the South Pole. But did you know that in the Joseph
Hooker exhibition at Kew Gardens, you can see a letter from
Scott to Sir Joseph Hooker? Today marks the 100th anniversary of
the day Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team reached the
South Pole, only to find that the rival Norwegian team, led by
Roald Amundsen, had got there before them, and not just by a few
days but by over a month. Captain Scott writing in his cabin It
must be the world’s largest understatement to say they must have
been disappointed. The near super-human effort involved in
getting there all for naught. But was it? Many forget that this
was not simply a race for the Pole. For Scott this time in
Antarctica had always been about science and thankfully many
authors and commentators now bring this to the fore and
recognise his dedication to this element of the expedition.
Letter from Scott to Hooker It was on th