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Terra Nova Expedition

by National Library NZ on The Commons

Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) was the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910-1913). He was one of the first to use a portable movie camera in Antarctica.

More photographs from the Terra Nova expedition are available on our Manuscripts + Pictorial website.

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The ship Discovery, Antarctica, 1901
Grotto in an iceberg, photographed during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, 5 Jan 1911
William Lashly standing by a Wolseley motor sleigh during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, November 1911
Group of crew of Terra Nova, Antarctica, 1912 or 1913
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, ca 1911
Herbert George Ponting and telephoto apparatus, Antarctica, January 1912
Herbert George Ponting and cinematograph, Antarctica, January 1912