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A granddaughter of Captain Scott has arrived in Antarctica exactly 100 years after he began his epic and fatal journey.

Dafila Scott has been chosen by the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge to be their artist in residence on HMS Scott.

"The opportunity to go to Antarctica on the centenary of my grandfather's last expedition is amazing," she said.

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Altogether she will spend a month on the Royal Navy ocean survey vessel.

The ship is the second to be named after Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

He and his team died on their return journey from the South Pole.

They hoped to be the first explorers to reach it.

Instead they were beaten to it by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen a month earlier.

Dafila Scott, who lives near Cambridge, specialises in painting landscapes and is a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists.