TERRA NOVA DUE TO-MORROW

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1913, Page 7

TERRA NOVA DUE TO-MORROW

CHRISTCHURCH, Thi« Day. ThexTerra Nova is due at Lyttelton to-morrow forenoon, LEADER'S CAREER STRENGTH AND COURAGE One of mahy interviewers has de« scribed Captain Scott as "a middlesized, thick-set man, of welMtnit, power« ful frame, rather of Shackleton'e build, though not so tall. ... He haa Borne* thing of the bulldog look, not rare among haval officers. , .. , He is not the sort of man who would turn back while he could go on, one would say. , . , He does not look as if he had the habit of quoting poetry. . , . Thorough-going, leVeMieaoed, business-like, with enough imagination for a leader and most determined in a quiet way— that is tho im« presßion Captain Scott gives." The explorer was born at Outlands, Devonport, on 6th June, 1868. He entered the Navy in 1882. He served in the Rover (1887-88) as lieutenant, and transferred to the Amphion in 1889, He was torpedo-lieutenant of the Majestic, the flagship of the Channel Bquadron, in 1898-99, and became first lieutenant on that vessel before the end of 1899. He reached the rank of commander in. 1900, and captain in 1904. In 1900-4 ' he led the British Antarctic expedition, with the ship Discovery, and published details of the voyagt- in two volumes. , Captain Scott is an honorary Doctor of Science of the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester, and gold medallist of the Royal Geographcal Society, the Royal Scottish Geographical' Society, the American, Swedish, Danish, Philadelphian, and Antwerp Ueo« graphical Societies. During the Discovery expedition Captain Scott, in December, 1902, poshed down to latitude 82deg 16min 33seo South, a feat of 4deg. beyohd the lowest I.oint reached by predecessors, but 450 miles from the Pole. He secured evidence that the ice barrier was only the edge of a vast plain of ice stveiehina in^ wards to the mountain ranges which ha saw at the end of his journey. In many ways the expedition otbained very valuable knowledge of the Antarctic. It was sturdy pioneer work to help other explorers in subsequent years. Sir Ernest Shackleton was with Captain Scott in, 1900-4, and thus learned much to help s himself in his remarkable enterprise o£ 1909.