Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In 2012, oceanographer Leighton Rolley and his team finally located one of the most famous polar shipwrecks - the Terra Nova.

He explains how sound waves led them to the ship best known for carrying Captain Scott’s ill-fated South Pole expedition.

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