THE END OF THE EXPEDITION 



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trip to King Edward VII. Land. There, beyond the Barrier, 

 he reached high land. Rocky cliffs appeared in a few nuna- 

 takker above the snow mantle. To these they gave Scott's 

 name. 



The next chart shows the position of the parties on the 

 1 8th of January, 1912. Cape Adare is now deserted. Camp- 

 bell has been picked up 

 by the Terra Nova, and 

 safely landed at Evans 

 Coves for five weeks' 

 exploration between 

 Mount Nansen and 

 Mount Melbourne. 

 Then the ship sails 

 south to pick up the 

 western party at Granite 

 Harbour, and to com- 

 municate with Head- 

 quarters. The pack-ice 

 is still solid in Mac- 

 Murdo Sound ; the ship 

 can do nothing till well 

 into February. The 

 western party are wait- 

 ing on Cape Roberts 

 some twenty miles from 

 the ship. As narrated 

 previously, they realize 

 that there is no hope 

 of relief in that quarter, 

 and later march over- 

 land to the hut. 



Day and Meares 

 have reached the hut, and Atkinson is now halfway home across 

 the Great Barrier. They have had an anxious rush to keep the 

 balance between food and time. Only one day — Christmas — 

 has been different from the many weary days of sledge-hauling. 

 Among the moraines near the " Cloud-maker," Wright dis- 

 covered a piece of marble containing the first large Archaeo- 

 cyathine fossil from Antarctica. Although vastly larger than 

 Shackleton's specimens, this is only a centimetre long ! 



Chart of parties, January 18, 191 2 

 (Scott reaches the Pole). 



