88 years ago, Captain Robert Falcon Scott organised an expedition to the Antarctic in the hope of being the first to reach latitude 90 degrees South.

In 1998 three expeditioners prepare their own expedition in the hope of being the first to repeat Scott's journey.

These web pages compare details of these expeditions looking both at the technologies used and how the expeditions were organised and conducted.

Further along the coast from New Zealand's Scott Base, is Cape Evans where Captain Robert Scott left for the South Pole in 1911. Opposite Cape Evans, on the other side of McMurdo Sound, is Cape Roberts. It is here where a multinational research team (The Cape Roberts Drilling Project) will drill from a sea ice platform deep into the ocean floor. The IceTrek team will visit this remote location before heading south in early November 1998.