Images Dated 2016

The Polar Party at the South Pole

Photographer: Ponting, Herbert (1870-1935). Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. Leader: Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Date: January 1912. Wilson, Scott, Evans, Oates, Bowers stand in a line in front of Amundsen's tent(variation made by Ponting from an original photograph by Henry Bowers)

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Northern party on arrival at Cape Evans, 7th November 1912

Attributed to the Frank Debenham collection. Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. Leader: Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The six members of the Northern party, looking weatherbeaten and dishevelled pose for the camera standing by their laden sledge. Hut at Cape Evans in background. Left to right: Dickason, Abbott, Browning, Campbell, Priestley, Levick

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Rymill, Watkins, Courtauld and Chapman at Base after Courtauld's relief

Photographer: Cozens, Henry Iliffe (1904-1995). Expedition: British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31. Leader: Henry George (Gino) Watkins. Date: 1930. John Rymill, Gino Watkins, Augustine Courtauld and Frederick Chapman, seated on a sledge. Augustine Courtauld, had remained alone at the Ice Cap Station to record meteorological conditions. He had rations and fuel to last for approximately three months, but due to terrible weather conditions it was not until he had been at the station for 150 days that a relief party was able to reach him, just as his fuel ran out

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