Museum seeks memories of ex-Budleigh Salterton polar explorer
Budleigh Salterton's Fairlynch Museum is appealing for help in putting together an exhibition in 2011 to mark the centenary of the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Robert Scott. A senior member of the expedition was Surgeon Commander George Murray Levick RN, who lived in Budleigh. His role as the expedition's doctor will be highlighted in the Fairlynch exhibition, but Levick is also celebrated as the founder in 1932 of the British Schools' Exploring Society. The above photograph was taken by Levick, the zoologist and photographer of the party, on Captain Scott's final Antarctic expedition of 1910-13. The six men, the northern party of the expedition, stand outside the entrance to the snow hole in which they have just spent the 1911-1912 Antarctic Winter in darkness. George Murray Levick is standing second from the right and pulling the string to release the camera shutter. Their clothing and hair were impregnated with seal blubber because all their cooking, m...