STORY OF A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1385, 11 March 1912, Page 5

STORY OF A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT

FIVE MEN FOM TEHEE DAYS AT ■ THE POLE A WONDERFUL JOURNEY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Bee. March 10, '5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. The "Daily Chronicle" has received the following message from Captain Amundsen, at Hobart:— "We started on our South Pole dash on September 8, but found we were too early, the temperature falling to between ramus SO and 60 degrees Celsius (from 58 to 76 degrees below zero Fahrenheit). The party returned as the dogs were suffering. / "Ore September 20 we started again, and met with a blizzard at the outset. Between the 82nd and SSrd degrees, however, the journey was a pleasure trip.' • "We passed ShacMelon's furthest south-on December 8, and reached our destination on December U, with all hands well. We named the spot King Haakon 711 Plateau. "Minute hourly observations were made until December 17, when we turned homewards. We averaged 25 kilometres (15h miles) daily going, and 26 kilometres coming back. "We determined the extent and character of the Boss Barrier, and also discovered the connection of South Victoria Land, and probably King Edward Land, with their continuation in the mighty.mountains of the south-west, stretching, in all probability, across the Continent."