The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1914. EDWARD VII. LAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1914. EDWARD VII. LAND.

Sir Clements Mark ham fully supports the British Antarctic Expedition which is to set out this year and considers that Lieutenant Stackhouse's proposal to explore the continental coast-line of Ross Quadrant should be cordially welcomed by geographers. . On several occasions, especially in his paper respecting Antarctic routes and in his paper read at Berlin, Sir C. Markham referred to such an undertaking as comprising work of the greatest interest and importance. Ho looked.forward to the unknown coast of the. Ross Quadrant being undertaken from die direction of Edward VII. Land, by a journey at least as far as the meridian cf Peter island. Assuming that the coast-line is continuous, it will, iie thinks, bo convenient to call it the Edwardian Coast. Mr Stackhouse proposes to commence his exploring work from the eastern end of the Quadrant,' tear the meridian of Graham Land. In liscussing his subject with Captain Scott, it was held that the coast-line >etween Graham Land and King Edward Land afforded by the report of Captain Cook, by the position of Peter Island on the continental shelf and by lie soundings obtained by the "J3eliiea," might be accepted, and that the >ack drifted northwards from the and, and that a ship, in a favorable ;eason might make her way along the oast. In considering the future Anarctic discovery, it was agreed that ncli a voyage would be the most im>ortant work that would remain to be 'one in the b"ar South, after Captain !cott had completed his researches '»i» the McMurdo Sound base, and it ill be a continuance of that illustrious xplorer's plans.