Icebound notebook found after 100 years

A photographic notebook from British explorer Robert Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition has been found after a century trapped in the ice of the frozen continent.

It belonged to scientist George Murray Levick and was discovered outside Scott's 1911 Terra Nova base during last year's summer ice melt.

Writing in the notebook remains legible, with Levick's name in the opening pages, but the binding has been dissolved by years of ice and water damage, the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust's executive director Nigel Watson said.