Cape Crozier - First Landing, 1902

First Landing, 1902

The first landing at Cape Crozier was on 22 January 1902, during Captain Scott's Discovery Expedition. A party from RRS Discovery landed by small boat on a stony beach area a little to the west of the Cape. A postbox was set up there, prominently marked, for messages to be collected by any future relief ship. Scott, Edward Wilson and Charles Royds climbed the slope to a vantage point from which they could view the Barrier surface, and they were also able to observe the large Adelie Penguin colony which inhabited the surrounding ice-free terrain.