Antarctic Expedition: Sir George Newnes' Farewell to Officers and Crew

Synopsis

This 1898 film is the earliest known surviving footage relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Sir George Newnes, who first published Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Strand Magazine, is seen here bidding farewell to the crew.

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Departure of the British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1st January, 1908.