Edward Leicester Atkinson Biography

Combines medical duties with scientific research.

Joins Terra Nova as surgeon and parasitologist.

Atkinson sets up laboratory equipment for medical and parasitological investigations at Cape Evans.

Atkinson turns north with a supporting group after hauling supplies partway up the Beardmore Glacier for Scott's continuing party.

He turns back before Scott selects the final polar party.

Travels as a member of a supporting party on the southern journey.

Returns north with the first supporting party.

Atkinson falls into a crevasse during the difficult upper Beardmore Glacier crossing but is recovered.

Atkinson turns back with the first four-man supporting party from the Beardmore Glacier.

Atkinson assumes leadership at Cape Evans after Edward Evans is invalided home and Scott's Polar Party fails to return.

Atkinson organizes a dog-team rescue after Crean reaches Hut Point with news that Edward Evans is dangerously ill.

Takes command at Cape Evans after Evans is invalided home.

Atkinson leads the spring search south to determine the fate of Scott and the missing Polar Party.

Leads the search for Scott's missing polar party.

Atkinson leads the search party south from Cape Evans to determine the fate of Scott's polar party.

Searchers find the tent containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers.

Atkinson's search party recovers diaries, letters and expedition records from the tent before building a cairn over the dead.

Atkinson's search party finds the final camp containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers and recovers their records.