In the early race to explore Antarctica, the Discovery Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, and Edward Wilson would end up traveling 960 miles / 1540 km in the early 1900s – but those miles were also traversed with delicate glass plates that would record the historic expedition in photographs.
August 06 marks 125 years since the Discovery Expedition left British shores, bound for Antarctica. The Discovery Expedition wasn’t behind the first-ever photos of Antarctica (that credit goes to the 1897-1899 Belgian Antarctic Expedition), but the ship was laden with more photographic equipment than any other Antarctic expedition before it.
