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100 years today
Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute/Getty Images
A view inside an ice grotto showing the Terra Nova in the distance - a gallery of pictures from Captain Scott’s expedition to the South Pole to mark the centenary of the event
