ABSTRACT

THE ANTARCTIC TREATY: A CONTINENT IN SEARCH OF A MINERALS REGIME

On their return journey from the South Pole in 1912 Captain Scott and his companions continued to perform scientific observations and work, and on 8 February one of his party, Edward Wilson, made the following diary entry:

Camped under . . . cliffs of Mount Buckley .. coal seams at all heights in the sandstone cliffs and lumps of weathered coal with fossils ...A s we travelled along the cliff on the 9th. we saw one or two seams of . . . really black coal[l].