Victor Campbell Victor Lindsay Arbuthnot Campbell DSO & Bar , OBE ( 20 August 1875 – 19 November 1956 ) , was a British sailor and renowned explorer . Biography . Born in Brighton , he was the son of Hugh Campbell and Lucy Eleanor Archer . " Terra Nova " expedition . In 1910 , he was First Officer on Robert Falcon Scott ' s Terra Nova expedition . After arriving in Antarctica in January 1911 , his role was to lead an Eastern party of 6 men to explore and carry out scientific work in King Edward VII Land , to the east of the Barrier . On 26 January 1911 , Campbell ' s party left in the Terra Nova and headed east . After failing to find a suitable landing site on the King Edward VII Land shore , Campbell decided to sail to Victoria Land . On its return westward , Terra Nova encountered Roald Amundsen ' s expedition camped in the Bay of Whales , an inlet in the Barrier . Marooned in Victoria Land . After returning to Cape Evans and informing Scott of Amundsen ' s location , Campbell ' s party were renamed the " Northern party " and set off again , sailing northwards and put ashore at Robertson ' s Bay , near Cape Adare . They built a hut and wintered at Cape Adare but due to the sea ice conditions were unable to fulfil much of their intended summer 1912 explorations . In January 1912 , Terra Nova returned from New Zealand , and transferred the party of Campbell , Raymond Priestley , G . M . Levick , G . P . Abbott , H . Dickason , and F . V . Browning to Evans Coves , a location south of Cape Adare and northwest of Cape Evans . However , they only had sledging provisions for six weeks with the intention of completing the geological work in a couple of weeks . After the work was done they were left with rations for about four weeks . It was not anticipated the ship would have trouble picking them up as arranged in February but the Terra Nova could not reach them due to heavy pack ice . Unable to connect with their ship , the Northern Party was forced to winter in Antarctica again . The party built an ice cave on Inexpressible Island where they spent the winter in miserable conditions , supplementing their rations by killing scarce seal and penguins . On 30 September 1912 , they set off for Cape Evans , finally arriving on 7 November after crossing more than of sea ice . After learning of the death of Scott and the entire Polar party , as the senior remaining Naval officer , Campbell assumed command of the Terra Nova expedition for its final weeks . Later years and honours . During the First World War , Campbell fought as Commander of the Drake Battalion in Gallipoli and in the Dardanelles , where he received the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) , in the Battle of Jutland and took part in the Zeebrugge raid on board of HMS " Warwick " in 1918 . Campbell served in the Dover Patrol and sank a U - boat by ramming it , for which he was awarded the bar to his DSO . In his further service with the Royal Navy , he reached the rank of Captain . Having carried out a special service in Arkhangelsk ( Archangel ) , he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . Campbell emigrated to Newfoundland in 1922 and died in Corner Brook , Newfoundland in 1956 .