SHACKLETON’S PLANS.
ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. London, April 26. Sir Ernest Shackleton was the guest of the Pilgrims' Club, and sketched his plans. He will land in Weddell Sea in the second week in December. He takes s ufficient food for the whole trans-continental journey, and each daily raiton will be of the highest nutritive value and of 35 ounces. Sir Ernest Shackleton remarked that the spent on the last expedition would, within three years, be saved by the magnetic work accomplished. Observations near the magnetic pole showed that the variations in the lines ol the charts used on ships southward of the equator were slightly wrong, and the correction enabled the ships to save two hours on the voyage. In emphasising the importance of raeterology, he mentioned tbat a dense ice season in Weddell Sea meant heavy rains in Chili and the Argentine, and this year’s open season in Weddell Sea led to lighter rains in the Argentine. If observations were made over a series of years, farmers and stockbreeders in the Argentine would be able more or less to regulate their water supplies.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1238, 28 April 1914, Page 3
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183SHACKLETON’S PLANS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1238, 28 April 1914, Page 3
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