100 years since Scott’s journey

Curator Kay Smith says the story of Scott and his men is solitary of immense pluckiness. Photo: Debenham and Taylor on the ice, December 20, 1910.

It includes images shot by photographer Herbert Ponting, single of the finest photographers of the 20th century. Photo: Scotts team encountering an ice cave.

The pictures were taken to illustrate lecture tours on the groups return, to help finance the expedition. Photo: Penguins frolicking by an iceberg.

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