Picture No | 10528888 |
Date | 1913 |
Description | Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - ponies |
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Michael the pony enjoying a roll in the snow near his stables on Antarctica, during the ill-fated Scott polar expedition 1910 - 1912. Captain Scott wrote of the ponies in his diary, 'Poor brutes. How they must have enjoyed their first roll. I note that now they are picketed together they administer kindly offices to each other; one sees them gnawing away at each other's flans in a most amicable and obliging manner.'
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Source | Photograph by Herbert Ponting reproduced in 'The Sphere', 8 November 1913, page 146 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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