TO THE ANTARCTIC.
:!A UNITED STATES .■EXPEDITION."-' By Teleeraph-Press Aesooiatlon^CoDyriEht. % 0 . CR^o.-. February 9, 9.45' p.m.) -V- = -It ■:■'■''■'■ ;-i""':H'■': N«>- York, February '9/".'. .The :National Geographical, Society.of the United' States has' accepted.the.'Peary: Club's in-ritatidii , to! join .with',;fh'e..Glub in; promoting: an-American expedition:to the Antarctic. /.'■•- ;: .''■•.■■'.::: \-^C-
■ ,;A campaign ( to raise , funds .will be started, ■!;^;/>';.y:.:;..; ■.' : .,-.,
.. [The- club: bffersv. to. .contribute the' steamship ■ Roosevelt (used; by •-Peary- onhis last two expeditions) on. condition that the ■ society..grants : so,ooo dollars ! (iS10,000) : towards the,cost' of the.expedition; and -that-both, the institutions,share the balance/of the. expenses. Commander Peary suggests that/the expedition might' reach, the. coast of,.,the, AntarctioContinent ;in March,. 1911,. at' a point directly opposite Captain' Scott's bVseV;:'The "American and, the: British . camps, would;: thus be 2000 .mites'apart.- ..He .calculates that',the Pol« could>e reached'at.the end of December; Commander. Peary states, that he would be, unable 'to conduct. the':expedition , : per-'-sonally: because"-'the.'.sledge; would require ,so, ;muoh.physical.exertion that: it would:need a younger,man.] . ;-,.■::
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 738, 10 February 1910, Page 5
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151TO THE ANTARCTIC. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 738, 10 February 1910, Page 5
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