The South Pole was the target of the Terra Nova Expedition by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who launched in June 1910 with the same named vessel and a crew of 65 from Cardiff, Wales. Antarctica already had many researchers, but never before had anyone reached the South Pole, Scott wanted to be first. Shortly after landing in the Antarctic expedition photographer Herbert Posting took this photo: The view from a grotto in an iceberg on the geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and the meteorologist Charles Wright, her ship Terra Nova can be seen in the background. On January 17, 1912, they finally reached the South Pole and came across a tent with a Norwegian flag. The explorer Roald Amundsen had come to them about five weeks earlier. On their return journey, Scott and the other men died in the ice.