30 J. H. MAIDEN. 



Meanwhile, a second party under Lieut. Campbell, had 

 been taken 500 miles east, by the "Terra Nova," to 

 attempt a landing on King Edward VII Land. The ice 

 conditions presented insurmountable difficulties, and on 

 their return the ship sighted the "Fram," and found that 

 Amundsen was settled on the Great Barrier, about 350 

 miles east of Scott's position. This news was left at Scott's 

 headquarters, and then the "Terra Nova" carried Camp- 

 bell's party north some 600 miles to Robertson Bay. Here 

 they were landed in February, 1911, close to Borchgrevinck's 

 hut of 1898. No other landing place was discovered in the 

 whole region, though Captain Pennell made many attempts 

 along the coast. However, the trip resulted later in the 

 discovery of two new areas of land between Cape Adare 

 and Adelie Land. 



A third party under Griffith Taylor was landed at the 

 foot of the Western Mountains in January 1911, primarily 

 to continue the geological work of the 1902 and 1907 

 expeditions, both northward in the Dry Valley area and 

 southward up the Koettlitz Glacier. Two geologists, a 

 physicist who studied the ice conditions, and a seaman con- 

 stituted the party. They found that the Dry Valley was 

 a magnificent example of a "trog-thal" crossed by bars 

 ("riegel") and exhibiting gorges and basins exactly as do 

 the valleys of the European Alps. Small craters and great 

 walls of late basaltic lava were perched on the older glaci- 

 ated shoulders of the valley. The Koettlitz region was 

 remarkable for the splendid examples of O W M (cirque) 

 topography and empty hanging valleys below Mount Lister. 



At head quarters, Dr. Simpson had encountered great 

 difficulty, even in February, in setting up his instruments, 

 in consequence of the violent weather. Nevertheless the 

 anemometers, a thermograph, thermometers, and sunshine 

 recorder, were placed on an adjacent hill 65 feet high. 



