Ponting was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in the south of England, on 21 March 1870. His father was a successful banker, Francis Ponting, and his mother was Mary Sydenham. From the … See more

The catastrophic end of "Scott's Last Expedition" also affected Ponting's later life and career. When the Terra Nova had sailed south in 1910, it had left massive debts behind. It was … See more

• 2010: Die Eroberung des Südpols – Fotografien von Herbert Ponting ("The Conquest of the South Pole: the photographs of Herbert Ponting"), Flo Peters Gallery, … See more

Media related to Herbert Ponting at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by or about Herbert Ponting at the Internet Archive
• Ponting Portfolio and platinum prints
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As a member of the shore party in early 1911, Ponting helped set up the Terra Nova Expedition's Antarctic winter camp at Cape Evans, Ross Island. The camp included a tiny photographic darkroom. Although the expedition came more than 20 years after the … See more

Ponting is also the author of a verse in trochaic tetrameter, "The Sleeping Bag" (1911). The poem, elaborating on a motif also found in the … See more

• Arnold, H.J.P., Photographs of the World: a biography of Herbert Ponting, Hutchinson, London (1969) ISBN 978-0-8386-7959-3 See more