Poem to the Meteorological Alarm.

The British Antarctic Expedition, also known as the Terra Nova expedition of 1910 - 1913 is best known for the courageous but ultimately ill fated attempt to race to the South Pole. The fate of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team is well known but many do not realise that scientific investigation and discovery lay at the heart of the British Antarctic Expedition. The meteorological logs and related data and documents and the aurora log from the expedition are all held at the National Meteorological Archive. The team included geologists, biologists, a physicist, a zoologist and a meteorologist. All members of the teams were expected to take a turn at making meteorological observations during all parts of the expedition. A small team called the 'Northern Party' were posted to Cape Adare where they built a hut and overwintered in 1911 - 1912. They took observations throughout the day and the night and to help them wake up to take the night time observations they build an alarm clock. It was not universally popular and in the back of the log is the "Poem to the Meteorological Alarm" the last line reads 'the devil waits for souls like yours in hell'!