SPECTACULAR images from Captain Scott's second, ill-fated Antarctic expedition surface at a London auction today.
One shows a giant coastal belt of ice - known as an icefoot - looming over the expedition ship, Terra Nova, in 1911. A second, from the same voyage, shows a grotto within an iceberg, with the same vessel in the background.
The original, poster-sized, green-toned prints are by the celebrated polar photographer, Herbert Ponting, and are expected to fetch up to #3000 and #2000 respectively at Bonhams.
Another Ponting shot, showing the 11-man Southern Party led by Scott and also including Lawrence Oates and Edward Wilson, against a backdrop of Mount Erebus, has a pre-sale estimate of up to #2000. The pictures turned up at a house sale in Perth, Western Australia, in 1970.
Scott's party reached the South Pole on January 17, 1912, to find the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, had beaten them to it by a month.
Delayed by the sickness of Oates and Edgar Evans, who both died, the remaining team members perished at the end of March.
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