Story: Nearshore islands

Training ponies

Training ponies

This photograph taken by Steffano Webb in 1910 shows Robert Falcon Scott (second from left) with his wife Kathleen Bruce Scott on Ōtamahua (Quail Island). They are watching ponies being trained for use on Scott’s Terra Nova Antarctic expedition of 1910–13.

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Eileen McSaveney, 'Nearshore islands - Quarantine centres and prisons', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/13031/training-ponies (accessed 30 March 2024)

Story by Eileen McSaveney, published 24 Sep 2007