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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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Tue 7 Apr, AT 01:00
Volcanoes and penguin colonies