March 21, 2012

Thursday, 21 March 1912

Scott

"Got within 11 miles of depôt Monday night [at Camp 60]; had to lay up all yesterday in severe blizzard. To-day forlorn hope, Wilson and Bowers going to depot for fuel." [1]

They were ten miles north of the point at which Scott had been urged to take the depot.


Amundsen

Amundsen left Hobart for the mainland to begin a lecture tour of Australia and New Zealand.


Notes:

[1] R.F. Scott, diary, 21 March, 1912, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition : the Journals, v.1.

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