Terra Nova Is Sailing
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The Terra Nova, on which Capt. Scott Is Sailing for the South Pole
Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES
LONDON, June 1.—What is confidently regarded as the most completely and ingeniously equipped polar expedition that ever set out sailed to-day, when the Terra Nova, on which Capt. R. P. Scott will make the journey that it is believed will result in the conquest of the south pole, left London for Portsmouth and Cardiff.
She will coal at Cardiff, and Capt. Scott will join her there. She will call at Madeira and should reach Cape Town on Aug. 1. The vessel will remain at Cape Town a fortnight, and in the middle of September is due at Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Lyttleton, New Zealand, is to be reached about Oct. 13, and there the dogs and ponies will be taken on board and Capt. Scott will take charge of the ship. Afterward the programme of the expedition is as follows:
Leaves New Zealand at the end of November (probably third week) and reaches Macmurdo. Sound, the main base, about the end of December.
In January, 1911. twenty-two men will be landed to form a Western Party. They will land their hut provisions, and equipment and establish a Winter station.
At the end of January, or in the third week, the Western party will go to the South to lay depots.
At the end of February the Western party will have established a system of depots south of the barrier.
In the third week in January the Terra Nova will leave Macmurdo Sound and go eastward to explore King Edward’s Land, a small Eastern party being landed with full transport facilities
In the third week of February 1911, the ship will go northward and investigate the pack in the region of the Balleny Islands.
In April the Terra Nova returns to New Zealand and in May, June, July, August, and September 1911, the expedition remains in Winter quarters.
In October the southern journey—the dash for the pole—begins.
In October and November the expedition traverses the great ice barrier and ascends the glacier.
Early in December the expedition reaches the upper plateau. On or about Dec. 22 1911, it is hoped that the south pole will be reached.
March, 1912, return to civilization.
The principal officers, scientists, &c., of the expedition, besides Capt. Scott, are the following, all men picked with the utmost care:
Lieut. E. R. G. R. Evans, R. N., second in command, (Western Party.)
Dr. E A. Wilson, chief of scientific staff. zoologist, and artist, (Western Party.)
Lieut. V. L. A. Campbell, R. N., leader of the Eastern Party.
Lieut. H. L. L. Pennell, R. N., magnetic and meteorological work In Terra Nova.
Lieut. H. E. de P. Rennick, R, N., (Western Patty.)
Lieut. H. R. Bowers, Royal Indian Marine, (Terra Nova.)
Engineer Lieut. E. ‘W. Riley, 11. N., chief engineer. (Terra Nova.)
Surgeon G. M. Levick, R. N., doctor, zoologist, &c., (Eastern Party.)
Surgeon E. L. Atkinson, R. N., doctor, bacteriologist, parasitologist.
P. R. H. Drake, R. N., Secretary, (Terra Nova.)
C. H. Meares, charge of ponies and dogs. (Western Party.)
Capt. I. E. G. Oates, Inniskilling Dragoons, charge of ponies and ,dogs, (Western Party.)
Dr. G.. L. Simpson. Physicist, (Western Party.)
T. Griffith Taylor, geologist, (Western Party.)
E. W. Nelson, biologist; (Western Party.)
D G. Lillie, biologist (Terra Nova.)
A. Cherry-Garrard, assistant zoologist. (Western Party.)
H. G Ponting photographer (Western Party.)
B. C. Day, motor engineer, (Western Party.)
W G. Thompson, geologist, (Western Party.)
C.S. Wright, chemist (Western Party.)
June 12, 1910
The New York Times