Terra Nova
Books
- Eleven Miles from One Ton Scott, Amundsen, and the Fatal Margin on the Antarctic Barrier · Liszt Think
On January 17, 1912, Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole only to find Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian flag already planted.
- Terra Nova Leaves CardiffThe Terra Nova sat low in the water at Cardiff Docks. Its hull, painted black above the waterline and yellow below, showed the scuffs of sixteen years in…
- The Rival’s TelegramThe coal smoke from the Melbourne docks still clung to the deck of the Terra Nova when the envelope reached Scott. He was in his cabin, or perhaps at the hotel on Collins Street where he had taken rooms to escape the ship…
- The Ice Dock at Cape Evans…hat could not pause, laying planks end to end where the ship’s boats could touch, building a surface that would bear the weight of what the Terra Nova had carried from Cardiff. The temperature hung near freezing, cold enough to stiffen fingers and thicken oil, not cold enough to stop the w…