Dr. Atkinson's Supporting Party

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No 17. from Players cigarette cards, second series of 25, 'Polar Exploration'. The front shows four men hauling a loaded sledge with a sail, captioned: 'Player's Cigarettes DR. ATKINSON'S SUPPORTING PARTY'. Reverse: 'Dr. Atkinson's Supporting Party. On September 22nd 1911, the third supporting party (consisting of Cherry Garrrard, Wright and Petty Officer Keohane, under Surgeon E.L. Atkinson, R.N.) left Captain Scott with seven companions in latitude 85º 7’ S. This party had assisted their leader up to the top of the magnificent Beardmore Glacier, and now a redistribution of the loads left the four men to return to Cape Evans. This party made splendid progress under Atkinson's skillful leadership. Mr. C.S. Wright, the young Canadian chemist, acted as navigator, and the little band won through and reached the Cape Evans Hut on Jan. 29th 1912, having completed a march of 1, 126 miles, mostly hauling their own sledge.'

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Object Details

ID:	ZBA2283.17
Type:	Cigarette cards
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1916
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 1 mm x 67 mm x 36 mm
Parts:	Set of cigarette cards commemorating polar exploration (Cigarette cards) Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, C.V.O., R.N (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.1) Commander E.R.G.R. Evans, C.B., R.N. (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.2) Capt. L.E.G. Oates, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.3) Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson, Chief of the Scientific Staff (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.4) Staff-Paymaster Francis Drake, Secretary and Ship's Meteorologist, Taking Sea-temperatures (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.5) Lieutenant H.R. Bowers, Royal Indian Marine (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.6) The 'Terra Nova' arriving off Cape Evans, Feb. 1911 (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.7) Capt. L.E.G. Oates Exercising a Siberian Pony on the Sea-ice off Cape Evans (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.8) Demetri, the Russian Dog-driver, Keeping a Penguin from the Dogs (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.9) Unpacking Sledge and Setting up Camp (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.10) A Football Match at Winter Quarters (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.11) Midwinter day at Cape Evans in the Men's Quarters (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.12) Preparing one of the Motor Sledges for the Southern Journey (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.13) A Sledge Team on the King Edward VII, Plateau (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.14) A Sledge Party Crossing a Crevasse (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.15) Commander Evans' Sledge Flag (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.16) Dr. Atkinson's Supporting Party (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.17) Commander Evans (second in command) Taking Observations (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.18) Weddel Seals Asleep on the Sea-ice (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.19) An Adélie Penguin and his Mate (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.20) An Adélie Penguin with a Young One (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.21) The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1910-12. Capt. Roald Amundsen, Discoverer of the South Pole (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.22) Lindström, the Cook (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.23) Amundsen at the South Pole (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.24) Oscar Wisting at the South Pole (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.25) An Adélie Penguin with a Young One (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.26)