The British Services Antarctic Expedition are flying the flag to honour Captain Scott
A wreath was laid at Porter's Lodge, at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, where a statue of Captain Scott is positioned
At the hugely popular Polar Research Institute named after him, in Cambridge, the Heritage Lottery Fund announced an award of more than £700,000 to save 109 photos taken by Scott, glaciers, ponies, sledges and all.
But the Pole itself is playing host to perhaps the most extraordinary recognition for the Terra Nova explorers.
The British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 – an Armed Services team pursuing "the bounds of human exploration and knowledge" in remote areas of the Antarctic – have split into three groups of eight to sail from Chile to the frozen Peninsula in a 75-foot yacht.
The sculpture was created by Scott's widow
"It is worth remembering that 100 years ago, Scott was approaching the South Pole and was surely in a state of excitement and trepidation," said Lieutenant Commander Paul Hart, one of the leaders preparing the group for a three-week mission to haul scientific equipment across the region.
"Whatever his reaction to arriving at the Pole after [Norweigan explorer Roald] Amundsen, he must have been proud of his team and his achievements in terms of their science work.
"I think that we are in exactly the same state of tension between excitement and trepidation."
Backed by the Dockyard, the expedition is expected to raise more than £20,000 for charity Help for Heroes, echoing the public support given to the families of Scott’s men after they died during their attempt to return home.
- Visit www.bsae2012.co.uk to catch up with the team, or follow them on Twitter. Visit their sponsorship page to donate, find them on Facebook or see their Education Outreach Programme.
More on the Scott Polar Research Institute photos:
Captain Scott was taught photography by the official expedition photographer, Herbert Ponting, and the collection charts his first attempts through to the remarkable images he captured on the first part of the Polar journey
Scott's subjects include his companions, the ponies and sledges, the scientific work they were undertaking and the breathtaking Antarctic landscape. The photos were thought to have been lost for decades
The photographs themselves were printed in the Antarctic by members of the expedition team as they waited for his return from the Pole. Scott was never to see the images he had taken
The British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition was led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN with the twin objectives of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole and to undertake scientific research on the Antarctic environment
The shots were developed in the Antarctic by the geologist, Frank Debenham, who later became the founding Director of the Institute. Difficulties with establishing copyright meant that only a handful were ever used
The negatives which survived World War I were passed given to Ponting. After his death, in 1935, the prints were sold to agency Popperfoto, who sold them at auction in New York in 2001
