Eyewitness accounts: the source of the Nile

Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott s Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic in 1910 13.

Based at the expedition hut at Cape Evans, Ponting spent the summers studying the continent s wildlife and landscape.

He records close encounters with orcas and leopard seals on the ice at Cape Evans, expeditions to study Adelie penguins at Cape Royds and to track the movement of the nearby Barne Glacier, as well as the hazards of icebergs.