Antarctic Exploration.

Manawatu Herald, 22 June 1899, Page 3

Antarctic Exploration.

With the present revival of interest in Antarctic exp'.orrtion, ii seems highly probable that the two expeditions which are now bting busily pushed forward will be brought to successful conclusions. Last year Sir Clements Markham. waa very energetic in appealing foi funds for a An' arcMc expedition, and the Admiralty were appmashed on the subject with the object of get. ting the Navy to co-operate in th> work. The Admiralty, however, did not see its, way, so that tb« pro | posed expedition has had to dt peod almost entirely upon private enter prie. The aff«ira of the." expedition have now fortunately received a decided impulse through/ Ihe contribution of £ 25,000 to the funds by Lieut. Colonel Llewellyn W. Long staff, of Wimbledon, a merchant prince much interested in geographical matters. This contribution brings the Royal Geographical Society's fund up to £40.000, and with such a pum already in hand I should not be difficult to obtain the remaining £10,000 necessary to th<~ efficiency of the expedition. At the same time, there has been in preparation a German scheme of exploration, which is also well advanced in funds wJFhe pcherae was first prepimd and submitted under the j >int auspices of fbe Berlin Geographical Society, nnd ihe Berlin Charlotten bury branch of the GevflQ^n, Oo'onin' Society. Baron von Blebthofen. who proeirlt d, tree d the history of the prrjefcto the Brnn^n meeting of 'he German G^ographentng in 1895, but the details of the doubl. expedition — which, as it. now happens will ha? e ?o close a relation to thai projected hy th« BriM«h Royal Geng raphicaj Society^ date no furth^j back that January of the presen 1 year, jt is hoppd that by co opera tion with this Gerrnin exped : tion very • excellent res.ult3 will bi obtained,