Elaborate plans made by John Cope, including a flight to the South Pole with George Hubert Wilkins, diminished for lack of funds to a winter spent by Bagshawe and Lt. Maxime Lester in an abandoned whaleboat, turned over to provide some shelter. Remarkably, the two men did perform some scientific work and observations. William Mills called it “the smallest party ever to winter on the Antarctic continent.”
Two Men in the Antarctic: An Expedition to Graham Land 1920-1922.
Bagshawe, Thomas Wyatt. With a Foreword by Frank Debenham. Cambridge: University Press, 1939.
- 1920-22 British Graham Land Expedition.
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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From Pole to Pole: The Life of Quintin Riley, 1905-1980.
Riley, Jonathan P. Bluntisham, UK: Bluntisham Books, 1989.
- 1920-22 British Graham Land Expedition.
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Quinton Riley was the Quarter Master of the British Graham Land Expedition, and this biography includes one full chapter on his participation in the BGLE (p. 55-95). He is described as a good-natured but argumentative colleague, of firm religious convictions, and a valuable member of the expedition staff.