100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica

An anonymous reader writes "A box of 22 photographic negatives from Robert Falcon Scott has been discovered after lying nearly a century in the famous explorer's hut. From the article: 'The photos were taken during Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Ross Sea Party, another failed exploration whose members were forced to live in Scott's hut after their ship blew out to sea. The cellulose nitrate negatives were found clumped together in a small box in the darkroom of Herbert Ponting, Scott's expedition photographer, the trust said. The trust took the negatives to New Zealand, where they were separated to reveal 22 images.'"

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[Brainguy]

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Robert Falcon Scott, time traveller

[DrXym]

Scott (of the Antartic) died in 1912 and had nothing to do with the pictures. Shackleton's later expedition was using his hut and left the pictures there.

Atlantic Heritage Trust Image Collection

[fred911]

http://www.nzaht.org/AHT/antarctic-photos/
for a complete collection of the images.