Evans Place

Chief Petty Officer Edgar Evans, RN, had travelled with robert Falcon Scott on his discovery expedition nd had impressed the famous explorer with "his resourcefulness, strength and fund of anecdotes".

That journey had seen him, with Lashly and Scott, sledge 700 miles off Victori. Consequently, Scott didn't have to think too long when Evans volunteered to accompany him on the Terra Nova adventure.

As it transpired, however, that trip was to have a fatal end for Scott and his small party - Bowers, oates, and Evans, all of whom, together with the Terra Nova ship itself, are commemorated in the naming of a group of streets at the back of the site of Scott's old family home, Outlands.

Born on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea, and christened and married in the same church as his parents - St Mary the virgin, Rhosili - Edgar Evans was the first of Scott's South Pole party to die, on 17 February 1912, on the Beardmore glacier.

EH 10 May 2003