Illustrations

First aerial ascent in Antarctica (Royal Society)

The Discovery caught in the ice at McMurdo Sound (Royal Society)

The Discovery at Dundee (M. Preston)

Announcement of Scott’s marriage, The Tatler, 1908

The Royal Hotel, Cardiff (M. Preston)

Captain Scott and Kathleen Scott aboard the Terra Nova (H. Ponting)

Captain Oates tending the ponies on the Terra Nova (H. Ponting)

Captain Scott at work in the hut at Cape Evans (H. Ponting)

Captain Scott’s ‘den’ in the hut at Cape Evans today (P. Chaplin, New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust)

Captain Scott’s last birthday dinner (H. Ponting)

Wilson at work at Cape Evans (H. Ponting)

A page from the South Polar Times

Edgar Evans in outdoor clothes at Cape Evans (H. Ponting)

Captain Oates (H. Ponting)

Life in ‘the tenements’ in the hut at Cape Evans (H. Ponting)

The end of the Winter Journey (H. Ponting)

Kathleen Scott and Peter

Petty Officer Evans and Crean mending sleeping bags (H. Ponting)

Camping near the Polar Plateau, December 1911 (H. R. Bowers)

Amundsen’s tent at the South Pole (H. R. Bowers)

Roald Amundsen (Mansell Collection)

Captain Oates walking to his death (Mansell Collection)

Monument to Captain Scott, Cape Town, South Africa (M. Preston)

Monument to Captain Scott, Christchurch, New Zealand (M. Preston)