"What explorer sailed on the ship ""Terra Nova""?"
Terra Nova (ship) Terra Nova (ship) Terra Nova was a whaler and polar expedition ship. She is best known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition. "Terra Nova" ("Latin" for New land) was built in 1884 for the Dundee whaling and sealing fleet. She was ideally suited to the polar regions and worked for 10 years in the annual seal fishery in the Labrador Sea, proving her worth for many years before she was called upon for expedition work. In 1903, she sailed in company with fellow ex-whaler to assist in freeing the National Antarctic Expedition's from McMurdo
Terra Nova Expedition a programme of geological, magnetic and meteorology studies on an "unprecedented" scale. There were further plans to explore King Edward VII Land, a venture described by Campbell, who was to lead it, as ""the" thing of the whole expedition", and Victoria Land. "Terra Nova" sailed from Cardiff, Wales, on 1910. Scott, detained by expedition business, sailed later on a faster passenger liner and joined the ship in South Africa. In Melbourne, Australia, he left the ship to continue fund-raising, while "Terra Nova" proceeded to New Zealand. Waiting for Scott in Melbourne was a telegram from Amundsen, informing Scott that the