SOUTH POLAR RESEARCH.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1897, 4 November 1913, Page 7

SOUTH POLAR RESEARCH.

THE STACKHOUSE EXPEDITION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, November 3. Sir Clements Markharo is appealing for funds for Mr. J, Poster Stacknouso s expedition to explore the coastline of the Ross Quadrant. He says that Mr. Stackhouso's plans are a continuance of the late Captain Scott's researches from M'Murdo Sound base. He adda: "With a stout ship, trained resolute navigators, and favourable seasons, thore is a prospcct of another great and important addition to our knowledgo of tho Antarctic." The Stackhouso expedition will be under tho command of Mr. J. Foster Stackhouse, a nephew of the famous physician, the late Sir Jonathan. Hutchinson. Mr. btackhouso was intimately associated with Scott,\and it was an understood thing that if Scott returned from his last voyage, the instruments he used and tho inlormation he gathered would bo placed at the command of the new expedition, tho objective, of' Mr. Stackhouso and his colleagues will be King Edward tho seventh s Land and the unknown area to the east of it. King. Edward's Land was discovered by Captain Scott in 1902. The explorer, however, did not land there and nitnough tho torritory bears the namo ot an English Sovereign, no Englishman. : c." 3 lino ™. has ever trodden its soil Sir Ernest Shackleton attempted to iTv", it o count ]7! n " (1 CTen had King Edjvard the Seventh s Land stamps printed by the New Zealand Government. But fW fw I tho euriosities of philately that theso stamps have npver been used in tho country whose imprint they carry. bo°Jt tL P p'?° S ® °'i th l v °y a 2e a special boat-tlie Polaris-has been built in Norway, according to. designs approved by Hansen, Charcot, and do Gerlacho. Captain Scott, too, saw tho plans, ftnd made suggestions regarding them.