Today, Nov 7 2011, marks the 99th anniversary of the day Capt. Campbell successfully led his party out of the ungodly Antarctic on a gruelling five-week, 230-mile trek over sea ice from Inexpressible Island to Camp Evans to be rescued by the Terra Nova.
In the early 1920s, Capt. Campbell retired from the Royal Navy and moved to Newfoundland, a place he had visited long before the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition and which held a special place in his heart. He would live in Black Duck Siding in western Newfoundland for most of the next 25 years.
He did return to the Royal Navy in 1939, serving two years in Trinidad. In 1941, he returned to Newfoundland and finished his naval career as commander of the so-called Corner Brook Navy, a volunteer Canadian navy submarine patrol group based in Corner Brook.
Capt. Campbell fell ill and died in Corner Brook in 1956 at the age of 81. He was buried in the cemetery located off Montgomerie Street in the Townsite area of Corner Brook.
Current time at Palmer Station, Antarctica: Current temperature: Cold. Damn cold.