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7 October 1911: ‘Captain Robert F. Scott writing in his diary’ – Throughout 1911, Robert Falcon Scott planned an attempt to the South Pole. Original black and white photographic print by Herbert George Ponting. Taken 7 October 1911, Antarctica. Re-mastered by Jordan J. Lloyd. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009633378/ Read the story behind these incredible photographs of Antarctica taken by Herbert Ponting in the early 1900s at https://www.unseenhistories.com/herbert-ponting-terra-nova-photographs