Tuesday, 9 January 1912

Scott

The weather lifted, and the party was able to move on. "RECORD," Scott cheered in his diary at 88° 25', having passed Shackleton's Furthest South, three years to the day earlier. "All is new ahead." [1]


Amundsen

"Same filthy weather," wrote Amundsen on the second day of a storm. "Snow, snow, snow. Snow and snow again. Will it never end." [2]

"Snowdrift and snowfall and I have had a bloody job going first," noted Bjaaland, but despite the drift so bad that they could hardly see, and a temperature of -8° that melted the drift and soaked the sledges, they managed sixteen miles. [3] "The dogs coped splendidly," Amundsen added.

The Fram arrived in the Bay of Whales.


Notes:

[1] R.F. Scott, diary, 9 January, 1912, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition, v.1.
[2] Roald Amundsen, diary, 10 January, 1912, quoted by Roland Huntford in Race for the South Pole : the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen (London : Continuum, c2010), p.234.
[3] Olav Bjaaland, diary, 10 January, 1912, quoted by Roland Huntford in Race for the South Pole : the expedition diaries of Scott and Amundsen (London : Continuum, c2010), p.235.