![]() ![]() Dyer and Pabodie of the geology department, Lake from biology, and Atwood of the physics department want not only to explore but to return with samples that will be the jewel in the crown of their university. The Miskatonic Expedition sets out to find what is beyond the point where Scott was defeated. Scott, his extant diary the only explanation of what happened, has already frozen to death in the vast tundra, but hope springs eternal in the human breast, and the possibility of discovery is stronger than any warnings of self-preservation. Shackleton and Scott have gone before them. ![]() Thus begins the journey of the fateful Miskatonic Expedition. ![]() At the helm of each is a weathered whaling-boat captain, and distributed between the two ships are a drilling apparatus, four men of science, their assistants and skilled mechanics, and their means for surviving the frigid Antarctic. Two ships sail from Boston Harbor on September the 2 nd, 1930, one the stately Miskatonic and the other, the rugged Arkham. ![]()
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