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Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) and eight other expedition members at camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, April 1911. They have just returned from the Southern Party's exploratary expedition. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) and eight other expedition members at camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, April 1911. They have just returned from the Southern Party's exploratary expedition. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)