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British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) stands next to a crack in the snow field in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during his Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 8th October 1911. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)

British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) stands next to a crack in the snow field in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during his Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 8th October 1911. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)