Lovecraftian Inspiration

The whereabouts of most of the photographs Robert Falcon Scott took around the 1910-13 expedition’s winter quarters on Ross Island and while on the journey toward the South Pole were long a mystery. The unpublished photos had apparently languished in a commercial archive for decades. Here are some of the images that the polar historian David M. Wilson has published in “The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott,” along with descriptions of where and when they were taken, as best Mr. Wilson could determine.

(Source: notcot.org, via pxpushr)