The Antarctic Continent.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 223, 24 March 1896, Page 2

The Antarctic Continent.

Among other articles of interest in The Century, is a description by Bochgrevink (hero of the recent Geographical Congress in London) of the first landing on the Antarctic Continent. Icebergs of large size were everywhere to be seen, and showed distinctly whether _ they were broken from the big barrier or discharged from the glaciers on Victoria land. Like fairy palaces were these master pieces of nature floating about — so clean, so pure — tbat the eye of mortal man seemed unworthy of such beanty — beautiful beyond description, terrible in their gigantic majesty, the crystals of their walls glittering in the sun, while caves and arches were half -hidden in a mist of azure blue, and about them the ocean, roaring sometimes with great fury, threw waves far up against their perpendicular sides, to fall back again in clouds of foam. The Norwegian explorers believe that Cape Adare is the very place wbere a future scientific expedition might stop safely even during the winter months. " The presence of a penguin colony, their undisturbed old nests, tbe appearance of dead seals, which were preserved like Egyptian mummies, and must have lain there for years, the vegetation on the rocks, and lastly, the flat table of the cape above, all indicated tbat there is a place where the powers of the Antarctic Circle do not display tbe whole severity of their forces."