The Worst Journey in the World · Character
Victor Campbell
Leader of the Northern Party, a naval officer whose separate command became a story of survival in its own right.
supporting
Also known as Victor Campbell, Campbell, Victor, Good old Victor, poor old Victor, Priestley, Campbell Priestley
First appearance: the worst journey in the world
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Campbell served as first officer and sighted South Trinidad Island from the fore yardarm.
Campbell took his party north along the coast while Scott drove south, and the two groups lost contact with each other for long stretches of the expedition. Cherry writes of him with the warmth of shared ordeal, calling him 'good old Victor,' and the Northern Party's separate struggle becomes a parallel narrative of endurance. His fate matters because it keeps the reader aware that the polar drama was only one of several desperate stories unfolding at once.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Terra Nova Expedition Members
- Protagonist
- Support Crew and Animals
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Story tension across the book.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- I: From England to South Africa
- II: Making Our Easting Down
- The Return of the Dog Party
- XIX: Never Again
- List of Illustrations
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