Lieutenant Evans surveying in the Antarctic Product:Framed picture 6th June 1961

6th June 1961

a battle class destroyer returns home to a warm welcome

including Anne Boleyn

Plate 1 from Mecanique celeste

Inscribed above: 'To be placed on Page 155 of Airopaidia'

Lieutenant Evans surveying in the Antarctic Product:Framed picture 6th June 1961Lieutenant Evans surveying in the Antarctic, 1911 1912. Evans using the 4 inch theodolite used to locate the South Pole on Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1910 1913. Scott and four companions reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them to their objective by a month. Delayed on their return by blizzards and running out of supplies, Scott and his team died at the end of March.