THE POLITICAL ASPECT

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1930, Page 6

THE POLITICAL ASPECT

Here, then,..within, tlie: covers of a | small text-book of 230 pages there is to ibe found a spirited account , of exploration and an analysis of the scientific results obtained therefrom. It touches but slightly on .the political • apropos of which we mi»y ourselves with the last paragraph of this, a book bound to be increasingly in demand. ...

“Norway is the•'third; nation •pand its territories in the Antarctic, in November, 1927, the ship Nprvegia, (under Captain Christensen, : .sighted Bouvet Island, that elusive,-,island in the South Atlantic Ocean/, lie .fi-xed its post ion at 54- degrees 2(5,: .ljninutes sotrtli and 3 degrees 24 minutes .east. The’- island is pentagonal inishapeand snow-clad sides rise evenly-'to a central plateau of about nine/ hundred metres elevation. There was practically no vegetation, but "the - s'eits teemed with life, and a number' Pt fur;'seals were killed. The sb.ip stayed there during December. In November," 1928, the British; waived any claims to the island in' favour -of Norway”';' In the last whaling season (1.978’’t/)’the Noryegia made a journey to Peter Kflind (80 degrees west 'and: 09- degrees south) land was the. first land, seek' south of the Antarctic Circle, anti was'Tliscovefed by .the Russian, Bellingshausen, in January, 1821. .Thus Norway Jnjs just taken ;■ pps^eSsion of two, (if the, most interesting .localities, .cjiscussed, in. An-taretic-yhistor.y. -Eerlmps...they, epitomise . Antarctica, as, a whole. covered ’"fly .ice, v hard . .to ~discover, commerce, but. sprrp.ynded by -richly endowed seas and. torched with'mystery and the-romance: oi/the unknown./’ ... .. V V : '\ '