Extraordinary notebooks from the Terra Nova Antarctic expedition of 1911 are available for study and research for the first time.
They are an important record of the natural history of Antarctica, an area now facing grave threats. However, they are best known for their infamous passages describing the penguin sexual behaviours.
The Natural History Museum in London has acquired notebooks from an Antarctic exhibition which contain some racy bits about the sex lives of penguins. Dr George Murray Levick, the ship’s surgeon who filled these notebooks with his observations, used the Greek alphabet to encode all the racy bits!
Read more: Terra Nova notebooks describing penguin sexual behaviours acquired by the Museum
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