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The day Captain Scott's famous RRS Discovery was finally brought home to Dundee


Crowds cheer as the Discovery finally arrives home to Dundee.
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As the RRS Discovery made its way up the River Tay aboard The Happy Mariner transporter 35 years ago, thousands of Dundonians flocked to the banks to watch a rich piece of the city’s history return home.
She was the first purpose built scientific research vessel for the Polar Region, transporting Captain Scott and his team to Antarctica at a time when less was known about the icy continent than we now know about Mars. ....

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The Quest for the North Pole Episode 3 Podcast Transcript


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It’s June 17, 1896, and Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen is waking up after another frigid night spent on Franz Josef Land. It’s an uninhabited archipelago north of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean. With his assistant Hjalmar Johansen still snoozing nearby, Nansen starts a fire, tosses some meat into a pot to make soup, and climbs atop a rocky hill to admire the view.
That’s when he hears it the unmistakable sound of dogs barking. He’s shocked, because their last sled dog died months ago.
The two explorers haven’t laid eyes on another human since they abandoned their ice-bound ship, the ....

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