Showing posts with label Robert Falcon Scott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Falcon Scott. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Hut


via retronaut
“Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s hut has survived almost untouched – except by the occasional passing explorer – for 100 years. It still houses 10,000 items left behind by the ill-fated 1910-12 expedition, many of them in remarkable condition. It has effectively been frozen in time.”
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When I saw the image [posted above], I thought that the stack of trays looked like photographer’s developer trays. I was thrilled to discover that they are!  “Apart from Scott himself, the only member of the 25-man team with his own space was expedition photographer Herbert Ponting, whose darkroom-cum-bedroom is still intact. Scott was the first explorer to realise the importance of photography in wooing the newly emerging newspaper industry.”