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1911 FROZEN FORTRESS
Dominating the barren Antarctic landscape, this berg of ice, with a dog sled in the foreground, resembles the ruins of a medieval castle. The image was taken by Herbert Ponting, official photographer of Captain Scott’s fateful Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole. Ponting, an banker-turned-photographer in his 40s, captured hundreds of shots as part of Scott’s party, but he didn’t join the push towards the Pole. Instead, he returned to Britain to prepare his photographs for Scott’s planned post-expedition lecture tour. But the captain never made it home.