see more

Stacking up supplies at Cape Evans on Ross Island, in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 23rd January 1911. The active volcano Mount Erebus is in the background. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)

Stacking up supplies at Cape Evans on Ross Island, in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 23rd January 1911. The active volcano Mount Erebus is in the background. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)
Getty Images

Hulton Archive Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge