There, a happy gig in a pub leaves him with a stowaway on his return trip to Edinburgh: the chambermaid from his hotel, a waiflike girl who becomes, in the city, his surrogate daughter.

NEWYORKER: The Illusionist

The exhibition also explores other Welsh links with Antarctica - a geologist from St Fagans, a stowaway from Newport and the Antarctic work of a zoologist from St Brides Major who later became director of the National Museum.

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Police officers, the UK's Angolan community and residents of a west London street where a stowaway fell to his death from a plane are hoping a computerised image of the man's face and a photo of his tattoo will lead to his identification.

BBC: Angolan plane fall man: Residents seek end to mystery