Events: detail
With Scott to the Pole
- Hosted by:
- Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- January 08, 2008 at 10:00 am
- Ends:
- February 28, 2008 at 05:00 pm
- Location:
- Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Pavilion, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
_Illustrating Antarctica’s majestic natural beauty & documenting preparations for Scott’s doomed 1910 South Pole journey. _
The Scott to the Pole exhibition returns to the Society for International Polar Year.
Images, mostly taken by the photographer Herbert Ponting who was the ‘camera-artist’ on the expedition, depict famous scenes, accompanied by commentary from modern polar travellers, scientists and relatives of Scott’s team.
Ponting’s images offer a poignant glimpse of expedition life: from Antarctica’s icy beauty to the men relaxing on deck, from landscape surveying to an impromptu hair cut – the exhibition captures intimate, everyday moments providing an absorbing diary that completes the familiar and well documented story for the race to reach the South Pole.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Open Monday-Friday, 10.00-17.00 in the Pavilion, at RGS-IBG.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
- Phone:
- 020 7591 3100
- Email:
- events [ at ] rgs.org
- Website:
- With Scott to the Pole
