CAPTAIN SCOTT'S CAMP FOUND STILL INTACT
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Received Friday, 10.45 p.m. NEW YORK, TeP. 21. A surveying party from the Byrd exp.edition inspected the 45-year-old camp of the Eritish explorer, .Captain Robert Scott, and on the snowswept harrier near MpMurdo Sound, paid" tributes to Britain 's Antarctic dead before the Vince's Cross — the monument which Scott erected before he perished on his return journe'y from the Pole. Some of Scott 's equipment was found to he usable. Boxes marked "National Antarctic Expedition" were uncovered and tins of biscuits and frozen mutton carcases found in natural refrigerators. -The buildings which housed members of Scott 's expedition were fourid intact *but sealed and .no attempt was made to enter them.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 February 1947, Page 4
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