The **Wikipedia photo edit of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition ** refers to a series of caption changes that took place between December 13-14, 2016.

The photo is of Gilbert Kerr dressed in a full black Highland dress, and black boots standing next to a an emperor penguin in Antarctica. Kerr was a member of a ship named Scotia (previously named Hekla) on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-1904. ^[4]Kerr was the official piper of the expedition. The penguin was tethered to a large cooking pot packed full of snow. ^[4]

The bagpipes in the photograph were given by William Bruce (Gilbert Kerr's assistant) to the 1st Edinburgh Battalion of the Royal Scots in 1914. Piper Anderson played them in the Battle of the Somme and lost them sometime during the battle. ^[4]

This photograph was made into a postcard and became one of the first items ever to be posted from Antarctica.

^[4]It has also turned into a stamp.

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It is the second-to-last photo when scrolling down the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition Wikipedia page.

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The series of edits started on December 13, 2016 by user Rubin110 (real name: Rubin Abdi).

He changed the caption of the aforementioned photo to read as follows:

"Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin (left), March 1904."

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The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition page received dozens of edits from December 13-14, 2016, many of which were out of jest.

Alan Ferrier, a Twitter user from Edinburgh, spotted the altered caption and tweeted it to online world with the caption:

"Who would have believed that the perfect Wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?"^[1]

The tweet received over 86,000 likes and over 49,000 retweets. ^[1]