Copies of the final edition of a newspaper produced by members of Captain Scott’s expedition to the South Pole have been reproduced to raise funds for the institute which bears the explorer’s name.

The Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge has put a £275 price tag on each of the 500 newly-published copies of The South Polar Times.

The paper’s final edition was written during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica.

Captain Scott and four colleagues reached the South Pole on January 17 1912, but had been beaten to it by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian team.

The captain died in the extreme cold on his return journey.

Members of the expedition waiting at Cape Evans put the paper together to keep their spirits up.

The final edition is filled with quirky illustrations and funny stories, but the institute, founded in memory of Captain Scott, says it is likely the writers knew the captain and his team might perish in the snowstorms.

Editor Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote in his editorial: “The last blizzard, which lasted into its eighth day, was a record for Cape Evans which we do not wish to see broken.”

The money raised from the sales will be put towards the work of the institute.