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Herbert G. Ponting
Writer 1870 - 1935

Herbert G. Ponting

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was an English professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this... Read full bio →

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90° South

90° South

Herbert G. Ponting 1933 1h 12m 8.0

This is a documentary of Captain R.F. Scott's second Antarctic expedition, begun in 1910. The British, under Scott, attempted to reach the South Pole before Roald Amundsen's Norwegians. Scott's writings reveal that the British made it to the South Pole, only to find that the Norwegians had gotten there first.

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