ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



chored the ''Discovery" for the long winter. Here he 

 built the 1902 hut (see Figure 8), but it was not 

 used as the expedition lived in the ship. 



Various short sledge journeys were made, one being 

 to Cape Crozier, east of Ross Island, to leave a record 

 of the voyage. On the return some of the men were 

 caught in a blizzard, and not realizing their danger 

 tried to reach the ship in the storm. Nine of them slid 

 down the steep icy slopes below Castle Rock (near 

 the hut), and one man, Vince, lost his life. Unfor- 

 tunately he wore fur boots so he was unable to regain 

 his footing and was dashed into the icy sea. 



The return of the sun on August 21st made longer 

 sledging possible. In October Royds went again to 

 Cape Crozier and here discovered the ''rookery" of the 

 Emperor Penguins. Early in November Scott, Wil- 

 son, and Shackleton started their fine journey to the 

 south, which traversed the first third of the long jour- 

 ney to the South Pole (see Figure 6). The men were 

 assisted by dogs, and Scott gained the poorest opinion 

 of dog sledging on this journey. On December 15th 

 they approached the Great Scarp (to the west) in lati- 

 tude 80° 30', but found their way barred by an enor- 

 mous chasm some three-quarters of a mile wide. Here 

 they left a depot and continued southward parallel to 

 the coast. Symptoms of scurvy developed in Shackle- 

 ton, but they pushed on to 82° 16' S. To the south- 

 west towered a twin peak some fifteen thousand feet 

 high, which they named after Admiral Markham. An 

 attempt to reach the land across the great chasm was 

 unsuccessful. On the return the dogs were practically 



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