Centenary of Captain Scott reaching the South Pole – in pictures

Captain Scott and members of the Terra Nova Expedition on 13 April 1911. Scott is at centre Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute/ Getty Images

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and members of his Antarctic expedition team aboard their ship Fram in 1911 Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

A penguin on the ice pack. One of expedition photographer Herbert Ponting's famous Antarctic images, taken in 1910 Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute,

A view inside an ice grotto showing the Terra Nova in the distance Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute /Getty Images

Dog handler Cecil Meares and Captain Lawrence Oates cook blubber for the dogs at their camp Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute/ Getty Images

Expedition photographer Herbert Ponting in his makeshift darkroom in the Winterquarters Hut Photograph: Scott Polar Research Institute/Getty Images

Captain Scott and members of the Terra Nova expedition celebrate his 43rd birthday at camp in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during his Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 6th June 1911. Scott is at the head of the table Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute,

Captain Robert Falcon Scott writes his journal in the Winterquarters Hut in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica, during his Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 7 October 1911. Behind him are pictures of his wife and son Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Getty Images

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his expedition to the South Pole in 1911
Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

A photograph dated 13/12/1911 taken by Captain Scott on his final expedition of (left to right) Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Henry Robertson Bowers, Patrick Keohane, Thomas Crean and Dr Edward Wilson on the Beardmore Glacier Photograph: Scott Polar Research Institute/PA

16 December 1911: Roald Amundsen, Oscar Wisting, Sverre Hassel and Helmer Hansen saluting the Norwegian flag at the South Pole. They were the first to reach it on December 14 with 52 dogs and 4 sledges Photograph: /EPA

Members of Captain Scott's party discover the tent of Roald Amundsen at the South Pole on 17 January 1912. Scott, Bowers, Wilson, and P O Evans. Picture taken by Lawrence Oates Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

A portrait of of Apsley Cherry-Garrard after returning from his attempt to find the missing Captain Scott, January 1912 Photograph: Herbert Ponting/Scott Polar Research Institute/ Getty Images

November 1912: Doctor John Scott Keltie of the Royal Geographic Society welcoming the Norwegian Artic Explorer, Roald Amundsen on his arrival at Charing Cross Station, London. Amundsen reached the South Pole on December 16 1911 Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images