‘Queen St with penguins’: Scott Base chef’s ‘incredible’ encounter in Antarctica’s notorious Cape Crozier [Video]

He was headed for the destination of a 1911 Antarctic expedition dubbed the “worst journey in the world”, but Thomas Robinson’s trip to Cape Crozier turned out to be a highlight of his 13 months in the snowy southern continent – if not of his life thus far.

Working as a chef at Scott Base, Robinson often heads out on hiking, cycling and camping expeditions in his free time, enjoying the feeling of being but a small speck amid a sprawling expanse of ice and snow.

This summer, he got the opportunity to join an expedition to Cape Crozier, a destination made infamous by Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s classic book about Robert Scott’s doomed Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic. Its title: The Worst Journey in the World.

Cherry-Garrard and fellow explorers Henry Bowers and Bill Wilson …