THE SOUTH POLE.
London, Feb. 6. Mr Griffiths Taylor,* of Sydney, at present at Cambridge University, has been appointed geologist for Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition. Sir Ernest Shackelton says that Commander Peary’s starting base pvill be 200 miles more northerly •''nan Captain Scott’s. He doubts if the Americans can laud because the regions are unknown. The Americans are lurther handicapped by proposed journeying' over quite new ground, whereas CaptaiP Scott will traverse the route previously tra.-ersed to within 97 miles of the Pole by Shackleton’s Expedition.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 809, 8 February 1910, Page 3
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86THE SOUTH POLE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 809, 8 February 1910, Page 3
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