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ANTARCTICA, 1911
Ensconced within his hut on Ross Island in the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott writes in his journal. It’s 7 October 1911, and he is planning his push onwards to the South Pole. A few weeks after this photograph was taken, he set off with a small party, only to reach the pole and realise that the Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it. The return trip claimed the lives of all five men, with Scott’s final journal entry reading: “It seems a pity but I don’t think I can write more.”