Scotts Second Terra Nova Expedition of

Robert Scott bided his time until Shackleton had returned from his expedition. When it became apparent that his former friend and recent rival did not reach the South Pole, Scott started preparations for another assault on the Pole. The resulting British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition of 1910-1913 got underway on June 1 of 1910. The Terra Nova was a converted Scottish whaling ship commanded by H.L.L. Pennell of the British Navy. The ship had an auxiliary engine and was crowded with 19 ponies, 30 dogs, and three tractors. When Scott reached Melbourne, Australia, on October 12, he received an ominous telegram from Roald Amundsen of Norway  

Scott knew then that he had a formidable rival in his race to the South Pole. 

The Terra Nova reached Ross Island without incident and unloaded a disassembled wooden hut and the supplies of the expedition at Cape Evans where Scott had decided to set up his base camp. By mid-January ofl911,thehutinEig.l.l4had been erected and aU of the supplies had been stowed. 

the Terra Nova took a four-man team led by Griffith Taylor across McMurdo Sound in order to explore the ice-free valleys of southern Victoria Land (Strange and Bashford 2008). The members of this team included Charles Wright, Frank Debenham, and Edgar Evans. 

Another legendary sledging trip was undertaken on June 27 of 1911 by Edward Wilson, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Henry (Birdie) Bowers who man-hauled sleds from Cape Evans to Cape Crozier in order to recover some embryos of Emperor penguin chicks before they hatched. This trip took place in the dark in extremely cold and windy weather. The team did reach Cape Crozier, where they collected three embryos, and returned to Cape Evans on August 2 after a trip that also lasted 36 days. 

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