ABSTRACT
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 … As we travelled along the cliff on the 9th. we saw one or two seams of … really black coal[ 1 ].
