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Dog handler Cecil Meares and Captain Lawrence Oates (1880 - 1912) cook blubber for the dogs at their camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, May 1911. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)

Dog handler Cecil Meares and Captain Lawrence Oates (1880 - 1912) cook blubber for the dogs at their camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, May 1911. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)