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Rare Pictures: Scott’s South Pole Expedition, 100 Years Later Amazing photos from the National Geographic. Here’s part of the description of this photo: Moustache encrusted with ice, photographer Herbert Ponting stands on an iceberg near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in 1911. Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910-1912 Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole. British explorer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott reached the Pole on January 17, 1912. A hundred years later, Ponting’s photographs—including many rarely seen copies housed in the National Geographic archives—offer an “incredibly rich visual record” of the expedition, according to historian Max Jones. Don’t miss the whole slideshow.

Rare Pictures: Scott’s South Pole Expedition, 100 Years Later

Amazing photos from the National Geographic. Here’s part of the description of this photo:

Moustache encrusted with ice, photographer Herbert Ponting stands on an iceberg near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in 1911. Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910-1912 Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole.

British explorer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott reached the Pole on January 17, 1912. A hundred years later, Ponting’s photographs—including many rarely seen copies housed in the National Geographic archives—offer an “incredibly rich visual record” of the expedition, according to historian Max Jones.

Don’t miss the whole slideshow.