Nora Fowler

Lietenant Carl Eielson (right) and other members of the Wilkins-Hearst South Polar Expedition in 1929 held and petted some of the penguins on the island, but the penguins didn't seem to enjoy it.

The Fernandina giant tortoise was last confirmed alive in 1906.

Siamese cats gather in their owner's Washington, D.C., living room, drawn by kittens playing with a ball of yarn.

Expedition members give whiskey to a pony that swam ashore after being stuck on an ice floe in McMurdo Sound on February 8, 1911.While laying supply depots in preparation for the South Pole trek, the men encountered many challenges, including unreliable ice and blizzards.