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Kōrero: Nearshore islands

Training ponies

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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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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-031145; G

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Eileen McSaveney, Nearshore islands – Quarantine centres and prisons, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13031/training-ponies (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Eileen McSaveney, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.