Gordon Murray Leavitt was a commander in the Royal Navy, explorer and, photographer. His 100 year old journal was recently uncovered in the Antarctic after summer snows melted. The journal allows New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust to add names to the photographs he has left behind. The journal has a page that says “This journal belongs to Gordon Murray Leavitt” and is dated 1910. This is quite a find.
After restoring the book, the finders compared the entries inside to photographs by Levick held by the Scott Polar Research Institute. There were quite a few links between the two bodies of records.
Antarctic Heritage Trust program manager Lizzie Meek tells Radio New Zealand that the notebook helps illuminate Levick’s old photographs.
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