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A century after members of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition climbed Mount Erebus, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge’s Professor Clive Oppenheimer has located their highest campsite.

City of London Sinfonia, in collaboration with the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), will embark on an ambitious concert tour in February to celebrate the centenary of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12.

̽»¨Ö±²¥story of the Terra Nova expedition, explored through the letters, diaries and photographs of its members, is to be told during a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Polar Museum.

̽»¨Ö±²¥story of the Terra Nova expedition, explored through the letters, diaries and photographs of its members, is to be told during a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Polar Museum.

̽»¨Ö±²¥Polar Museum at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥'s Scott Polar Research Institute, has been short listed for the Art Fund Prize 2011 – the £100,000 prize for the ‘Museum of the Year’.

̽»¨Ö±²¥last volume of the expedition newspaper, South Polar Times, written by the men waiting for news of Captain Scott’s return from the South Pole in the Antarctic winter of 1912, has just been published in a limited edition by the Scott Polar Research Institute.

An international group of scientists will gather at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge on Friday 7 May 2010 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer, one of the most dramatic scientific findings of modern times. ̽»¨Ö±²¥event will be web cast live.

Chinese, Indian, American and British scientists have released a conference declaration urging a region-by-region response to increased water scarcity and heightened hazards.

An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.

̽»¨Ö±²¥largest coordinated programme of international polar activities in 50 years – International Polar Year (IPY) – kicked off globally on 1 March 2007. Building on a 125-year history of previous polar events in 1882–1883, 1932–1933 and 1957–1958, the aim of IPY is to promote even greater international scientific collaboration to address issues of global importance within the Arctic and Antarctic.