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In pictures: Scott's Last Expedition, Natural History Museum

January 2012

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An exhibition about the explorer's tragic Terra Nova expedition and the scientific discoveries made on it opens in London this month. Curator Elin Simonsson talks us through some of its captivating photographs
Scott's ship, the Terra Nova
©H Ponting photograph, Canterbury Museum NZ, 19XX.2.432 (detail)

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'This is the Terra Nova in the ice. The photographer was Herbert Ponting, who took all of the photographs on the expedition; he took thousands. It took Scott's crew weeks to get through this pack ice, the broken up ice you see here, to land. Ponting was a fascinating person who had done a lot of travelling; he was the first official photographer that went on an Antarctic expedition.'

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Posted by Lucy Thackray

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