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Scott's wrecked ship Terra Nova found off Greenland (BBC)
By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website
The wreck of the ship that carried Captain Robert Scott on his doomed expedition to the Antarctic a century ago has been discovered off Greenland.
The SS Terra Nova was found by a team from a US research company.
Scott and his party set off from Cardiff aboard the Terra Nova in 1910 with the aim of becoming the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
The ship had a life after the polar trek, sinking off Greenland's south coast in 1943.
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"She went through a lot in her lengthy history and really was the pinnacle of Scottish wooden shipbuilding.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19288188
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