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Figure 3.17. After landing at Ridley Beach on the tip of the Adare Peninsula in February 1911, Camp-
bell's party had no more success than Borchgrevink in escaping the steep rock walls and cascading
ice falls around the perimeter of Robertson Bay and down the seaward wall of Cape Adare. After
wintering over, the party was picked up and moved by the
Terra Nova
to Terra Nova Bay.
Browning (petty oYcers), and Harry Dickson (able-bodied seaman). These men survived
one of the most horrendous of Antarctica's sagas. The Ter ra No va had landed them at
Cape Adare on February 18, 1911, at the site of Borchgrevink's hut, for a winter-over. They
soon found that the steepness of the mountains and the instability of the sea ice prevented
them from exploring beyond the confines of Robertson Bay, exactly as Borchgrevink had
reported (Fig. 3.17; see Fig. 1.6).
On January 3, 1912, Ter ra No va picked up the party and sailed south to Terra Nova
Bay to drop them for a month of mapping. The ship was able to moor against fast ice in
the bay between the Northern Foothills and the Southern Foothills—later named Inex-
