--- title: Captain Scott and Captain Shackleton: A 100 Year Old Expedition description: An exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in London’s Buckingham Palace marks the centennial of one of the last great episodes of the age of exploration. canonical: https://time.com/3783925/captain-scott-and-captain-shackleton-a-100-year-old-expedition/ author: Ishaan Tharoor article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2011-12-16T09:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:41:16.646Z article:section: World og:title: Captain Scott and Captain Shackleton: A 100 Year Old Expedition og:description: An exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in London’s Buckingham Palace marks the centennial of one of the last great episodes of the age of exploration. og:url: https://time.com/3783925/captain-scott-and-captain-shackleton-a-100-year-old-expedition/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd78c1852a9a6a66/6986859713c79f1de81910a7/2580016.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2580016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Captain Scott and Captain Shackleton: A 100 Year Old Expedition twitter:description: An exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in London’s Buckingham Palace marks the centennial of one of the last great episodes of the age of exploration. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd78c1852a9a6a66/6986859713c79f1de81910a7/2580016.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Captain Scott and Captain Shackleton: A 100 Year Old Expedition > Sponsored content. 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Ponting was struck by the colors of the ice inside the grotto, which were a mix of blues, purples and greens on January 5, 1911. An ice grotto, framing the Terra Nova. Ponting was struck by the colors of the ice inside the grotto, which were a mix of blues, purples and greens on January 5, 1911.Hebert Ponting by [Ishaan Tharoor](https://time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/) ## Ishaan Tharoor Dec 16, 2011 9:00 AM UTC If there is a land above the seas that remains a last frontier for mankind, it’s Antarctica. A recent [GPS mapping conducted by the British Antarctic Survey](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2070635/What-Antarctica-look-like-naked--radar-mapping-shows-mountainous-Alps.html) provided a reminder of how uncharted and unknown the vast white continent still is. When Antarctica’s hulking glacial landmass—icy and inhospitable—was spotted by 18th century British Captain James Cook, he remarked: “I make bold to declare that the world will derive no benefit from it.” That proclamation did not ward away future journeys, though. An exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in London’s Buckingham Palace marks the centennial of one of the last great episodes of the age of exploration. “The Heart of the Great White Alone” exhibits images taken from two separate expeditions: the ill-fated attempt by Robert Falcon Scott to reach the South Pole in 1911 and the slightly less calamitous (but no less dramatic) expedition undertaken in 1915 by Ernest Shackleton, whose ship foundered in Antarctic ice and whose crew escaped a frosty end only after one daring act of courage. Accompanying Scott was Herbert Ponting, the early 20th century version of a footloose freelance photojournalist. The Briton’s peripatetic career had taken him from California to the naval battlefields of the 1905 Russo-Japanese war to treks across stretches of Asia. His photos retain a distinctly Victorian sensibility for landscape; Scott’s ship, _Terra Nova_, and members of his crew are dwarfed or eclipsed by the magnitude of the silent, icy world around them. Ponting was also captivated by Antarctica’s fauna and almost died in the maws of a pod of killer whales, which burst through sheets of ice near where the intrepid photographer had set up for a closer look. An entry in Scott’s diary records the moment: “It was possible to see the whales’ tawny head markings, their small glistening eyes and their terrible array of teeth — by far the largest and the most terrifying in the world.” Ponting stayed behind with the main contingent of the expedition while Scott and a team of volunteers left their base camp in November 1911 to press toward the South Pole. Scott would never return, consumed by his quest to be the first to reach the Pole; he was beaten to the site by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who unlike Scott, lived to tell the tale. Ernest Shackleton’s grandiosely named Imperial Trans-Antarctica Expedition was remembered for the lives saved, not lost. Accompanied by the photographer Frank Hurley aboard the ship _Endurance_, Shackleton’s voyage hit the skids early in 1915, its main vessel unable to endure the deadly ice drifts of the Weddell Sea. The crew escaped on lifeboats to barren Elephant Island but Shackleton knew no rescue would come to them at the edge of Antarctica’s glacial waste. So, with four others, he set off in the _James Caird_ — an open wooden boat with oars and a sail — across nearly 1,000 miles of terrifying sea, thick with ice and buffeted by storms, to whaling stations on the island of South Georgia. Improbably, Shackleton’s crew made it and within three months he returned to Elephant Island aboard a Chilean steamboat to rescue the remainder of his crew, including Hurley. Not one man who journeyed with Shackleton aboard the _Endurance_ was lost. Not surprisingly, Hurley’s pictures capture scenes of comradeship — of men huddled together by a fire, of indomitable dogs perched in the snow. It’s friendship and trust — not simply the heroism of captain explorers — that can withstand life in the heart of the great alone. _Ishaan Tharoor is a writer-reporter for_ TIME _and editor of_ [_Global Spin_](http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/)_. You can find him on Twitter at_ [_ishaantharoor_](http://twitter.com/#!/ishaantharoor)_._  The return of the sun after 92 days. After the darkness of the Antarctic winter, the return of the sun was a major event in 1915. Frank Hurley  The Endurance entering the pack ice of Weddell Sea in order to reach the coast of Antarctica, on December 9, 1914. Frank Hurley  Captain Scott, center, poses with members of the crew in front of the expedition hut at Cape Evans in January 1911. Herbert Ponting  The ramparts of Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island which was first climbed by members of Shackelton's Nimrod expedition, seen here in 1911. Hebert Ponting  Captain Lawrence Oates and Siberian ponies on board Terra Nova.The ponies hauled the supplies during the early stages of the expedition, but they were ill suited for the extreme Antarctic conditions in 1910. Hebert Ponting  Captain Scott writing in his diary in the corner of his hut at Cape Evans surrounded by his personal belongings on October 7, 1911. Hebert Ponting  The night watchman, with little to do, apart from observing ice movements, gathers with the men around the fire to share stories in 1915. Frank Hurley  The James Caird ship departs for South Georgia, and would return four months later to rescue the men on August 24, 1916. Frank Hurley  The Endurance crushed between the floes. A week after the ship had been forced out of the ice came the final blow, the pressure crushed the ship into a mass of broken timber fragments, and the Endurance sank on October 25, 1915. Frank Hurley  Samson, one of the sledge dogs, at the entrance to his dogloo in February 1915. Frank Hurley  Frank Hurley with his team of dogs. Using the dogs for transportation he was able to roam more widely in search of good photographs in August 1915. Frank Hurley  The Terra Nova in McMurdo Sound. Ponting took this view of the Terra Nova while standing on the shifting ice floes. The ship had reached Antartica only a few days previously on January 7, 1911. Herbert Ponting  An ice grotto, framing the Terra Nova. Ponting was struck by the colors of the ice inside the grotto, which were a mix of blues, purples and greens on January 5, 1911. 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