Robert Falcon Scott

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This photograph by Ponting, the official photographer to the Antarctic expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, shows Scott in his hut at work on his famous journal. Scott had set sail in the Terra Nova in June 1911 and established his expedition's winter quarters at Cape Evans. Three weeks after this photograph was taken, the expedition set out on their southern sledge journey. On 16 January 1912, they arrived at the South Pole to find the Norwegian Amundsen's flag already there. On the return journey from the Pole, Scott and his companions perished, among them the legendary Captain Oates. The last entry in Scott's journal reads: 'We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write any more'.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Robert Falcon Scott

Date

1911

Medium

carbon print

Measurements

H 35.6 x W 45.7 cm

Accession number

P23

Acquisition method

purchased, 1976

Work type

Photograph

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