Famous Discoveries - Edward Wilson Watercolour

Whilst conserving artefacts from Cape Adare in 2016, the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered an almost perfectly preserved watercolour painting among penguin-excrement, dust and mould covered papers found in an historic hut at Cape Adare, Antarctica. The watercolour was painted in March 1899 by Dr Edward Wilson who later died with Captain Robert Falcon Scott and three others on their return from the South Pole in 1912.