Lyttelton, New Zealand
The Terra Nova Expedition was an effort, by governments and concerned citizens of what was then the British Empire, to plant the Union Jack on the South Pole by means of men, ponies, dogs, and primitive snowmobiles hauling sledges from a base located on the Antarctic coastline. The documentary portrays expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott and his ship, the "Terra Nova", and men as they leave Lyttelton, New Zealand, to sail into the Southern Ocean and its ice floes.