'Captain Scott's Last Birthday Dinner', 6 Jun 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting.

'Captain Scott's Last Birthday Dinner', 6 Jun 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting.

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'Captain Scott's Last Birthday Dinner', 6 Jun 1911, (1913). Celebrating expedition leader Robert F Scott's 43rd birthday, left to right: Atkinson, Meares, Cherry-Garrard, Oates (standing), Taylor, Nelson, Evans, Scott, Wilson, Simpson, Bowers, Gran (standing), Wright, Debenham, Day. The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) left London on 1 June 1910 bound for the South Pole. The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913), included a geologist, a zoologist, a surgeon, a photographer, an engineer, a ski expert, a meteorologist and a physicist among others. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901-04. He also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. Scott, accompanied by Dr Edward Wilson, Captain Lawrence Oates, Lieutenant Henry Bowers and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them to their objective by a month. Delayed by blizzards, and running out of supplies, Scott and the remainder of his team died at the end of March. Their bodies and diaries were found eight months later. From Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I. [Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1913]


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Creator
  1. Herbert Ponting, attributed to: British: Photographer
Subject
  1. Apsley Cherry-Garrard: British: Polar explorer, zoologist, author.
  2. Edward Atkinson: British: Navy surgeon, explorer
  3. Cecil H Meares: British: dog team driver, chief handler, Russian interpreter
  4. Lawrence Oates: British: Explorer
  5. T Griffith Taylor: British: Geologist, geographer, anthropologist and world explorer
  6. Edward W Nelson: British: marine biologist
  7. Edward Wilson: British: Explorer, naturalist, scientist, physician, natural historian, painter, artist, ornithologist.
  8. Henry Bowers: British, Scottish: Explorer
  9. George Clarke Simpson: British: Meteorologist
  10. Tryggve Gran: Norwegian: aviator, explorer and author
  11. Frank Debenham: British: Professor of Geography, geographer, cartographer
  12. Charles S Wright: Canadian: Physicist
  13. Bernard C Day: British: motor engineer
People Related
  1. Robert Falcon Scott: British: Naval officer, explorer

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  1. Photograph

Picture Type
  1. Portrait

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  1. 0580058535
  1. 2-691-323
  1. 2691323

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