The granddaughter of an early polar explorer has attended a ceremony to mark the launch of the first Antarctic coin.
The coin has been created by the Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood, Surrey, to commemorate the centenary of the Granting of Letters Patent in 1908 when the UK first claimed the British Antarctic Territory.
The striking ceremony was attended by Philippa Foster Back, chairwoman of the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust, whose grandfather Frank Debenham accompanied Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole from 1910 to 1913....
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