EXPEDITION'S EARLIER WORK.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 6

EXPEDITION'S EARLIER WORK.

.ADVENTURES AND DIFFICULTIES

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

The Terra Nova, with Captain Scott ...ami the other members of the British Antairctio Expedition, left Fort Chal- - mere on November 29th, 1910, and to- - wards the end of March the vessel ref turned to New Zealand, bringing tid- -, ings jdf the expedition. Rough weather was Experienced during the southward - jouraey; pack ice was met- with on ■ JD?*3e*iber iv latitude 65 degrees, and : threei weeks were spent in passing thmifgh it. On December 30th open, w-atet was reached, and a few .days Jater tJhe:diip arrived ott" Cape Crozier, where. ■ iioarwer/i no landing could be effected

owing to the heavy .swell. The course was. then directed to MacMurdo Sound,

which was found to, he unusually open. Winter quarters were established at Cape Ev;ans, 14 miles north of the' Disv«over# .Station. • :

Lieutenant Ey.aris here left the ship .to ca^ry out the ivotk to him

. in connection with the land expedition, . and Lieutenant Pennell .took charge in . his place. About the end of January Captain Scott set off with a party, including eight ponies and .sledges, to lay . depots for the Poleiyxud iourney. r ; T^e Terra Nova, leaving MaoMurdo -Sound,' proceeded eastward along the .Great Ice Barrier,.but, unable to find ; 4 fending place for Liem-tenant Canipl>et),'a "party, turned back, arid at Whales Bay Unexpectedly fell in with

tdio Fram, with Captain Amundsen's <o>jpiecf!tioii. After . calling ai\ iVIaoMurdo Sound ihe vessel sailed .riorth-

..ward, and at Capo Adare la.uded ; the vparty under Lifisiitenant Campboll;" On Hho r roturn -voyage, to. New ' mucili vialuable 'work

was accomplished. Terra, Noya a as had been arranged, -returned som© .-jtumths ilater -£p the Antarctic, regions to bring '''back a por-- : lion ;of ; the and outho . morning of /April'lst,, .1912, she arrised "lunexpoctodiy "nt •■. - Akaroa. Cuptami iScotfc, it was quickly x&ecrtained,, was not on board. He was last 'heard, of making a gallant effort,,despite matoj .adversrjiesy .to achieve his Polar objective, and 'Lieutenant Fejn,a.ell,' the coinmando.r of .the ship, expressed '.the- ; ui> most] confidence in his . lhe Terra Nova brought back from the Antarctic, however, not only Captain Scott's own chronicle of tho exiserionces o[ his Southern party and his account -*of tho manner in which the winter was cpont, but a very largo amount of doepiy interesting information concerning Lh,s doing of the other parties and the .-scientific results achieved. . Tho scientific work accomplished by tho expedition was of the most valuable character. Not tho members of tho southern •partly tonlj; wore left behind. • rho Tcrxa Nova, owing to had ice conditions, was forced to return without Lj:nitenimt V. L. A. Campbell's eastern party, whijcli had boon landed on the Drygalski Claeior end had tboutfe sledged into the inWrior of South Victoria Land,

Both th© southern and western parties, however, were fully prepaied to meet the emergencies that hud aiisen, and no alarm was felt on their account. ■ Two geographical expeditions to th© west coa&u \ioiQ productive ot good 10----fculta. coal and iobsiis wore found, this being tho litot time xiiat fossils have b&Lii discovered m the Antaicuc. lUe v lioalijli ot the me-nmers" of Uio expedition was oxoellcut, 'Liioouiy exoupt.uii being Lieutenant E. It,. G. Ev un&, t'ho faecond in command, who had bowl tlown with scurvy, but ft as theii convalescent.