ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



four members of the Pole party might have been saved. 

 A bhzzard held Scott and his comrades to their tent 

 for nine days and the last message was dated March 

 29th. Seven months later, when winter had passed, 

 their bodies were found by a party under Atkinson, 

 and left there under a giant snow cairn in the Antarctic 

 solitudes. 



A few words must be given to the northern and 

 western parties. The latter under myself with Deben- 

 ham and two others spent three months in mapping 

 in detail the coast line north of our previous journey. 

 A careful topographic and geological survey of Granite 

 Harbor was made, and the party sledged up the Mackay 

 Glacier to Mount Suess, which was ascended (see Fig- 

 ure 24). Near here coal and Devonian fish were 

 found. The ship could not pick us up owing to the 

 heavy belt of pack ice so we traversed the thirty-mile- 

 wide Wilson Piedmont and were picked up by the ship 

 on the fourteenth of February, 191 2, near the Koett- 

 litz Glacier. The northern party had not been able to 

 sledge far from Cape Adare, but made very valuable 

 records of glaciology and meteorology in this distant 

 locality. The ship brought them south to the Ice Shelf 

 north of the Drygalski Tongue. Here they were left 

 on January 8th, 191 2, with six weeks' food, to explore 

 the hinterland north of where David had been picked 

 up in 1909. They made a valuable map of the region 

 and Priestley found very interesting Permian fossil 

 trees. The ship was unable to reach this party owing 

 to the heavy screw pack, so that on March i6th they 

 started to burrow into a snow drift to form a snow 



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