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Ponting's Antarctica

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These images were taken by Herbert Ponting, official photographer on Robert Scott's British Antarctic Expedition in the TERRA NOVA, 1910-13.

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Crew on the mast of the TERRA NOVA
Antarctic ice cakes
Adult penguin with two chicks
Horses landed on the Antarctic ice
Map of Ross Island coast
Antarctic landscape
Antarctic landscape
The TERRA NOVA and a berg at the icefoot, 16 January 1911
Lieutenant Evans draughting
Dr EA Wilson working up a sketch, 18 May 1911
Midwinter work group in the Hut
Dr Atkinson in his lab
The "Tenements"- bunks inside the Winter Quarters Hut
View of the TERRA NOVA from a cavern in a stranded iceberg, 8 January 1911
Ponting at the Adelie penguin rookery, November 1911
Debenham with a plane table
Australian National Maritime Museum Collection
Men having breakfast
Meares and Captain Oates at the blubber stove
Captain Scott writing his journal in his den, 7 October 1911
A group of men hauling a sledge
A man with a pack of dogs hauling a sledge on the snow
Three men laying a depot of Huntley and Palmer's biscuits
One day's sledging ration
A sledging party under the lee of the Castle Berg
Man and a sledge beside the end of the Barne Glacier, Ross Island, 29 November 1911
An Antarctic wind storm
The motor party: Lieutenant "Teddy" Evans, Day, Lashly and Hooper, by one of the motor sledges
An Antarctic landscape
Meal time in the tent of the Pole party. Left to right: Evans, Bowers, Wilson and Scott
A sledging party
A sledging party
Captain Robert Falcon Scott
British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 Part of the Antarctic regions showing Captain Scott's sphere of operations and route to the South Pole
A sledging party
The South Pole party
At the Pole
The Polar Party ( Oates, Scott, Wilson, Evans and Bowers) at the South Pole, 18 January 1912
Edgar Evans
Lieutenant H R Bowers
Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Captain L. E. G. Oates
Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott's grave cairn
Antarctic landscape
Penguins
A penguin
Three Emperor penguin eggs
The penguinery at Cape Royds and Mount Erebus
An Adelie penguin
A group of penguins
Adelie penguins
Two Adelie penguins
Two Adelie penguins
Two Adelie penguins
An Adelie penguin with eggs
Three Adelie penguins. Two of them sitting on nests.
An Adelie penguin with its head coming up through the snow
The Adelie Penguinery at Cape Royds
An Adelie penguin with an egg
Two Adelie penguins and three chicks
A group of Adelie penguins on the ice
A flock of Skua gulls
Two Skua gulls
A Skua gull next to a penguin egg and Adelie penguins
A Skua gull stealing a penguin egg
A Skua gull keeping two eggs
A Skua gull chick and two eggs
A Skua gull next to its chick
A Skua gull feeding its chick
Church Berg and Seals
Seals basking on pancake ice floes
A seal resting on the ice
A seal resting on the ice
Hooper and Dimitri [Geroff] and a Weddell Seal at Cape Evans
A seal coming through a hole in the ice
A seal coming through a hole in the ice
A seal coming through a hole in the ice
A Seal in the water and the ice
A Seal in water with head above the ice
Seals fighting
Seals fighting
Mother seal and its cub
Mother seal and its cub
Mother seal feeding her cub
Mother seal with two cubs
Two killer whales
A killer whale
A dead Leopard seal
Dr Wilson, Mr Cherry-Garrard and Petty Officer Forde with a Crab-Eater Seal (Sea Leopard) on a sledge
A squid found by Ponting and captured by him and Lashly at Cape Royds
Dennis Lillie with a Glass Sponge on the Terra Nova
Skua gulls
A Notothenia fish
Skua Gulls picking a seal skin January 1911
An Antarctic landscape with Barne Glacier and Mount Erebus
Cairn built at the resting place of Scott, Wilson and Bowers
View of the TERRA NOVA through an ice cave
Scott's Antarctic ship TERRA NOVA in port
Dogs on board the TERRA NOVA
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