 Next to their bodies lay of "Glossopteris" tree fossils which they had dragged on hand sledges.These were the first ever discovered Antarctic fossils and proved that Antarctica had once been warm and connected to other continents.In January 1913, before "Terra Nova" left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem "Ulysses"