Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer
A brief overview of the life of Ireland's greatest Antarctic explorer.
Photographs from Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition
Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition 1910 – 1913.
A Photograph Gallery.
A collection of some of the lesser seen images captured on Robert Falcon Scott’s, ill fated Terra Nova Expedition.
Demetri Gerof with a dog team at Cape Evans photographed during the last, tragic voyage to Antarctica by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, circa October 1911. Scott was tutored by Herbert Ponting, the renowned photographer who was the camera artist to the expedition, which enabled Scott to take his own memorable pictures before perishing on his return from the South Pole on or after 29th March 1912. (Photo by Captain Robert Falcon Scott/Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Dog handler Cecil Meares (1877 – 1937) at the pianola in the Winterquarters hut, in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, January 1912. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)
H.G Ponting. Captain Scott+s Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1912. 28th May, 1911. Expedition team members Dr. Wilson, Cherry-Garrard and Ford with a leopard seal on a sledge.
H.G Ponting. Captain Scott+s Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1912. 5th July, 1911. A close up showing the frostbitten hand of Dr. Atkinson.
H,G Ponting, Captain Scott+s Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1912, 31st March, 1911, An interior view of Simpson’s laboratory in a wooden hut (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
H,G Ponting, Captain Scott+s Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1912, 14th January, 1911, Mather pictured with a horsepulled sledge, loaded with ballast to the ship (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
A pair of fur-lined boots or ‘finnesko’ with crampons attached in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 1911. (Photo by Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty Images)
H,G Ponting, Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1912, November, 1911, Cecil Meares cutting up seal meat with an axe for the dogs at feeding time