SCOTT’S CAMP

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1947, Page 4

SCOTT’S CAMP

IN ANTARCTIC Visited by Americans (Rec. 10.45). NEW YORK, Feb 21. A surveying party from the Byrd Expedition inspected the 45-year-old camp of the British explorer, Captain Robert Scott, and, on the snow-swept Barrier, near McMurdo Sound, paid tributes to Britain’s Antarctic dead before Vince’s Cross—a monument which Scott erected before he perished on the return journey from the Pole. Some of Scott’s equipment was found to be useable. Boxes marked "National Antarctic Expedition” were uncovered, and tins of biscuits and frozen mutton carcases were found in natural refrigerators. The buildings which housed the members of Scott’s expedition were found intact, but sealed, and no attempt was made to enter them.