The British Antarctic Expedition of 1898 to 1900 was under the command of Carl Borchgrevink in the Norwegian barque Southern Cross. Borchgrevink purchased the vessel with a view to making the first intentional overwintering in Antarctica. Substantial financial backing from English publisher George Newnes enabled the voyage to sail under the British flag. The Expedition left London in August 1898 and reached Cape Adare in February 1899. Having landed the shore party of nine (including Borchgrevink) the ship left to spend the winter in the Southern Ocean, and conducted a program, with limited results, of sub-surface temperature readings and deep soundings. The shore party made extensive meteorological and magnetic observations, and collected geological specimens. Biological collections, including some dredged from shallow water, were poorly preserved and documented. Southern Cross returned to collect the shore party early in 1900 and travelled over 400 miles along the Great Ice Barrier (Ross Ice Shelf), landing a number of sledging parties and in February 1900 reaching further south than any expedition to date. This was the first time dogs and sledges were used in Antarctica. The Expedition reached Hobart in April. Results of the Expedition were published by the British Museum (Natural History) in 1902.
Members of the Expedition included:
Carl Borchgrevink, leader;
Louis Bernacchi, astronomer and physicist;
Hugh Blackwall Evans, assistant zoologist;
William Colbeck, magnetic observer and cartographer;
Nicolai Hanson, zoologist.