An Antarctic cruise sounded like an oxymoron, and New Zealand had yet to experience the arms race in luxury lodges that has transformed the country's travel profile.
The final leg from New Zealand to the Antarctic was an epic in itself, battling violent storms and treacherous pack ice before the Nimrod anchored in McMurdo Sound on Jan 28th 1908.
The aforementioned explorer toddled off into the Antarctic night in an incredible gesture of self sacrifice aimed at keeping his mates alive.
Scott had the misfortune to launch his final assault on the Pole at just when the Antarctic temperatures took an unlikely plunge.
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The team will fly him to the Russian-run Novolazarevskaya Station (Novo), an Antarctic research station, and from there to Cape Town on Wednesday evening.
Commenting on the latest findings, Dr Dominic Hodgson, an Antarctic lakes expert from the British Antarctic Survey (Bas) in Cambridge, said the research raised the possibility that there was life on Mars.
The Twin Otter aircraft was flying from the South Pole to an Italian Antarctic base when its emergency beacon was activated at 10:00 GMT on Wednesday.
Once Scambos called the British Antarctic Survey, the group sent an aircraft on a reconnaissance mission to examine the extent of the breakout.
The Coldest Journey is an attempt to cross the Antarctic in temperatures low as -70C.
The photographs give an insight into the team's Antarctic journey and portray the harsh conditions Scott's team faced.
"There is a certain amount of luck involved, as well as the skill of the crew and the preparation of the boat, " explained Jarvis, in an interview before he left for the Antarctic.
At the IWC meeting in Morocco, there was a real chance of emerging with an agreement under which Japan would have pledged to cut its Antarctic catch of minke whales to a few hundred per year now and 150 per year in 2015.
On the 14-day Jewels of the Arctic cruise operated by Aurora Expeditions, for example, passengers on the Polar Pioneer had access to a naturalist, geologist, an assistant expedition leader and Miller, an expedition leader who has spent 14 seasons in the Arctic and 20 in the Antarctic.
There has been an international ban on commercial whaling for 25 years, but Japan sends its fleet to the Antarctic in the autumn or winter each year, returning the following spring, with the aim of catching hundreds of whales.
Polar historian and author Dr Huw Lewis-Jones thinks this reenactment is an excellent way of resussitating interested in the early 20th century period known as the "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration".
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