World Penguin Day: Historic penguin photos

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  In the spirit of World Penguin Day (yes, that is a real thing):
  
  In 1913, the world saw the first professional photographs of penguins in Antarctica, taken by H.G. Pointing of the fated Terra Nova expedition.
  
  Captain Robert F. Scott and his team of British explorers lost a race against the Norwegians to the South Pole, but spend the next two years documenting their findings in Antarctica before every last member of the crew perished, only to be found by a search party 8 months later.
  
  In 1913 the search party returned with photographs and journals from the Terra Nova, you can see them here.
  Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 
   
   

  An Adelie penguin guarding eggs in its nest while standing next to two cans of Lyle's syrup on the ground. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  The Terra Nova berthed at Glacier Tongue. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Full length portrait of photographer Herbert Ponting wearing warm clothing with his cinematograph. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Penguins resting on the ice in front of a large iceberg. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Photographer Herbert Ponting is attacked by an angry penguin on the penguinry at Cape Royds Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  Adelie penguins resting on the ice with Mount Erebus and open water near the grotto iceberg in the background. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  A close up view of the eggs of an Emperor penguin. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition 1911 - 1912, 3rd January, 1911. A view of Mount Terror taken in the evening. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  Thousands of penguins on the rocks of the penguinry at Cape Royds. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Penguins standing at the ice edge under a gloomy sky at the time of the midnight sun. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  A group of young penguins at Cape Royds. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Penguins and an ice berg at Cape Royds. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Beautiful ice reflections in the water with the Terra Nova ship in the background. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  Penguins standing on the ice in front of Mount Erebus. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

   

  Tracks in the snow of an Adelie penguin crossing the path of a sledge track. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Photographer Herbert Ponting amongst a group of penguins on the penguinry at Cape Royds. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

   

  Expedition team members Clissold and Anton inspecting an Emperor penguin. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  A group of Adelie penguins on the sea ice. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  An Adelie penguin with baby chicks by the nest. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

   

  An Adelie penguin lying on his nest, made from a mound of stones. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

   

  Photographer Herbert Ponting is attacked by an angry penguin on the penguinry at Cape Royds. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  

  Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880 - 1963) and meteorologist Charles Wright (1887 - 1975) in the entrance to an ice grotto during Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 5th January 1911. The 'Terra Nova' is in the background. Photo: Scott Polar Research Institute, , H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova

  Royds. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

   

  Expedition team member Clissold inspecting an Emperor penguin. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova 

   

  Lieutenant Evans guiding Bernard Day's motor tractor, laden with food and supplies, past the bergs on their Southern journey. Photo: Popperfoto, H.G. Pointing/Terra Nova

   

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