| | Antarctic Book Notes |
 | | For most of her 60-year life, Terra Nova had a colourful career operating from the Port of St. John's, Newfoundland and was leader of the fleet known as the 'wooden walls' which went to the Arctic ice each Spring with large crews in pursuit of the seal fishery. |
 | | All biographers agree about the beginning: Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a young naval officer of some abilities and more determination, who wanted to get ahead on merit at a time when the navy still valued a man's contacts more than his abilities. |
 | | The frustration this created shows in an early diary entry, when he wrote that "the naval officer should be provided by nature with an infinite capacity for patiently accepting disappointments". |
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