A meteorological screen set up at Cape Adare. [1]In King Edward VII Land, Campbell's second major spring sledging journey set off from Cape Adare for Cape Barrow. Rotten sea ice prevented them from going further. "It was a bitter disappointment," wrote Campbell, "for I had expected at least to be able to get beyond Cape North this way." [2]
Levick wrote rather more cheerfully, "We as a party have undoubtedly hopelessly failed in our object (exploration) but Priestley and I are settling down to get as much scientific work as possible done, to try as much as we can at any rate to justify our existence." [2]
Notes:
[1] Scott Polar Research Institute.
[2] Victor Campbell, quoted by Katherine Lambert in The Longest Winter (Washington DC : Smithsonian Books, c2004), p.99.
[3] George Murray Levick, quoted by Katherine Lambert in The Longest Winter (Washington DC : Smithsonian Books, c2004), p.100.
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