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Pictures of the great alone: Scott and Shackleton's Antarctic

By Jessica Griggs

9 December 2009

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Enduring the fate of the Antarctic

(Image: The Royal Collection/2009 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

Robert Scott’s ill-fated trip to Antarctica and Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to cross it are great tales of human endurance. Here we present photos taken by their on-board photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, presented in the book The Heart of the Great Alone.

See: Pictures of the great alone: Scott and Shackleton’s Antarctic

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