THE SOUTH POLE.
■ - ■; CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN IN,,LONDON.; By Tolearanli—Press Association—Oooyrisht (Reo. November 17, 5.5 p.m.) ' : ' ■ London', November IG. : j' Lord Curzo'n, President of the Royal!' Geographical Society, in presiding ,at the Queen's Hall, when Captain Amundsen, tho discoverer of the South Pole, deliv-. ered his first lecture,. Said Englishmen did not grudge the Norseman his success, for he was the descendant of explorers and pioneers. Our brave countryman, Captain Scott, had doubtless reached the same Pole a few weeks later, ahd was now'garnering a harvest -of scientific spoil, rendering his expedition the most notable of modern times. Captain Amundsen purposes spending a month in England.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1600, 18 November 1912, Page 5
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104THE SOUTH POLE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1600, 18 November 1912, Page 5
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