POLAR EXPLORATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 92, 24 March 1916, Page 6

POLAR EXPLORATION.

I AMUNDSEN'S NEW PURPOSE. VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY IN 1917. Unit«o Pn*w Association. - (Received 10.30 a.m.) Copenhagen, March 23. Captain •Amundsen, with the Noi wegiati Government's support, is starting from Northern Alaska in the summer of 1917 on a voyage of discovery. SHACKLETON IN THE SOUTH. TO WINTER IN WEDOELL SEA. LIFE IN SOUTH GEORGIA. CINEMA FILMS OF POLAR JOURNEY. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Buenos Aires, March 23. The Endurance is expected daily. A whaler brought Shackleton's diary of the voyage to South Georgia. The whalers there said there had been a bad ice season, and the pack was unbroken. Shackleton abandoned the idea of crossing the Continent that year, aud decided to winter in the Weddell Sea, in the hope of reahincg 77 degrees 30 minutes South •before being frozen in. The diary says that a stowaway "was discovered in a tank locker, |Be said it was the only had ot joining the expedition. He was made cook's help. Shackleton's Pole party will probably be himself/Wild, Marston, Hurley and Macklin. The men are in splendid health. He expects to cinema the polar journey. It is difficult to realise that they were in South Georgia. There is a population of two thousand in summer. The homes of the station managers are replete with every comfort. There- is electric light everywhere on the island, which is most valuable to the expedition, because the dogs could-be exercised anc 1 fed on flesh meat. Hurley has a good camera and many feet of film, which will enable moving pictures tc be taken for the first time in a polar journey.