<i>Captain Scott's Birthday Dinner, 6 June 1911</i>, by Herbert George Ponting (died 1935).  Cape Evans, Ross Island, Antarctica <br><p>Pictured:
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<ul><li>Edward Leicester Atkinson (1882-1929), Surgeon; member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913.</li>
<li>Henry Robertson ('Birdie') Bowers (1883-1912), Polar explorer.</li>
<li>Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959), Polar explorer.</li>
<li>Bernard C. Day (1884-1934), Motor engineer and member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913.</li>
<li>Frank Debenham (1883-1965), Geologist; Founder Director of Scott Polar Research Institute.</li>
<li>Tryggve Gran (1889-1980), Norwegian ski instructor and aviator; member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913.</li>
<li>Cecil Henry Meares (1877-1937), Lieutenant-Colonel, linguist and Antarctic explorer.</li>
<li>Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880-1957), Admiral; Antarctic explorer.</li>
<li>Edward W. Nelson (1883-1923), Biologist; member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913.</li>
<li>Lawrence Edward Grace Oates (1880-1912), Antarctic explorer.</li>
<li>Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), Antarctic explorer. S</li>
<li>Sir George Clarke Simpson (1878-1965), Meteorologist; member of British Antarctic Expedition.</li>
<li>(Thomas) Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), Geologist; member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913.</li>
<li>Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912), Naturalist and Antarctic explorer.</li>
<li>Sir Charles Seymour Wright (1887-1975), Geophysicist; member of British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913.</li></ul><p><br></p>
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Herbert_Ponting" class="extiw" title="w:en:Herbert Ponting"><span title="English photographer and explorer">Herbert Ponting</span></a>
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