What is "depots"

Usage examples of "depots".

As there were no landmarks, we had to indicate the position of our depots by flags, which were posted at a distance of about four miles to the east and west.

During our stay here we decided to build beacons at every fifth kilometre, and to lay down depots at every degree of latitude.

The First Account On February 10, 1911, we started for the South to establish depots, and continued our journey until April 11.

We formed three depots and stored in them 3 tons of provisions, including 22 hundredweight of seal meat.

Veteran, Lindstrom: the Only Man Who has Sailed round the Continent of America 208 The Start of the First Depot Journey 208 A Page from the Sledge Diary, Giving Details of Depots I.

The plan of the shore party was, as soon as the hut was built and provisions landed, to carry supplies into the field, and lay down depots as far to the south as possible.

On our way across these endless plains, where no landmarks of any kind are to be found, we had repeatedly thought of a means of marking our depots so that we might be perfectly sure of finding them again.

As I have said, we had discussed the question thoroughly, and come to the conclusion that we should have to try to mark our depots at right angles to the route, in an east and west direction, instead of in a line with the route, north and south.

The importance of the depots we had laid down was, of course, greatly increased, since they would now only have to support five members of the party originally contemplated, and would thus be able to furnish them with supplies for so much more time.

We stood there expressing our annoyance rather forcibly at the depot having escaped us so easily, and talking of how jolly it would have been to have picked up all our depots from the plain we had strewed them over.

On our way southward we had taken a good deal of seal meat and had divided it among the depots we built on the Barrier in such a way that we were now able to eat fresh meat every day.

This was the last of our depots that was not marked at right angles to the route, and therefore the last critical point.

As we only had two sledges on which to transport supplies for three men and sixteen dogs, besides all our outfit, and as on our trip we should have no depots to fall back on, the duration of the journey could not be extended much beyond six weeks.

The train ran quickly through the narrow fringe of suburbs, and then they were in one of those vast Continental stations which put our outdated depots to shame.

Probably warehouse inventories, weekly reports from the depots, losses and gains.