First Reaction
Thu 3 Jan, AT 10:09
Fernandez's flagging popularity at home is thought to be behind her open letter to David Cameron
First Reaction
Wed 19 Dec, AT 09:49
Decision to name a chunk of Antarctica after Queen is provocative, says geopolitics professor
First Post
Sun 10 Jun, AT 11:36
Study from 1915 of sexual habits of Adelie penguins described necrophilia and ‘paedophilia’
Briefing
Tue 7 Feb, AT 16:33
Nazi secrets microbes, or nothing? Excitement is building at Russian breakthrough
News
Sun 11 Sep, AT 15:15
Drunkenness, insanity and serial adultery at America’s McMurdo research station to be topic for new series
In pictures: the real-life Happy Feet penguin is released back into the Antarctic sea after being rescued in NZ
In 1910 the British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. On board the Terra Nova was photographer Herbert G Ponting. Although Scott's next expedition to the Antarctic was to end in tragedy - the Captain and four of his men died after reaching the South Pole - Ponting's photographs of the earlier expedition and its participants provide a unique insight into the earliest days of polar exploration.
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