EXPLORING THE GREAT CONTINENT 



usually long period, for ice extended from 64° 30' S. to 

 71° 30' S. On January 3rd Scott tried to land at 

 Cape Crozier, but this being impossible he sailed up 

 MacMurdo Sound and fixed his headquarters at Cape 

 Evans, about halfway between the huts of the 1902 

 and 1907 expeditions (see Figure 8). Fine weather 

 enabled the hut to be rapidly built, so that the depot- 

 laying party and the Western Geological Party were 

 able to leave on the twenty- fourth of January, 191 1. 

 Thereafter the ship sailed toward King Edward VII 

 Land where Campbell's party was to make a base for 

 scientific survey. On arrival at the Bay of Whales 

 they found Amundsen there in the "Fram." Campbell, 

 therefore, was transferred to Cape Adare, where the 

 northern party spent the ensuing year (see Figure 6). 

 The southern party with the ponies, under Scott, 

 carried a large store of food to One Ton Camp, about 

 one hundred miles south of Ross Island. They had 

 many narrow escapes from crevasses, but the most 

 hazardous experience was when Bowers' party of three 

 found themselves adrift after camping on the sea-ice 

 near the 1902 Hut (see Figure 8). For many hours 

 they tried to bring ofT the ponies by jumping the floes, 

 but finally only one pony was saved. The others fell 

 into the sea and were devoured by killer-whales. The 

 first western party under my leadership, with Wright 

 and Debenham as fellow-scientists, marched up the 

 Ferrar Glacier making detailed topographic, glacial, 

 and geological surveys (see Figure 8). We crossed 

 the Ice Divide at Knob Head and then sledged down 

 the adjacent Taylor Glacier to its snout, some twenty- 



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