DISCOVERY AGAIN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 6

DISCOVERY AGAIN

ANOTHER VOYAGE. Famous Ship May Yet Go South Again. Press Association —Copyright. London, Decenilber 20. Twenty-five years ago this week Amunsden reached the South Pole thirty-four days ahead of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the British explorer who perished with his comrades on the return journey. Now Captain Scott’s famous ship, the Discovery, in which he made his first attempt to reach the Pole in 1901, may make its way again through the ice floes. Thirty-four British explorers are going in search of new regions. They will be known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1937, and they expect to sail from this country early in March. The expedition will be in command of Mr E. W. Walker, a young explorer, who was one of the James Bay Geological Expedition to the Arctic in 1930 and 1931. . The Discovery has lain idle in East India Dock since she came back from the Antarctic Expediton led By Sir Douglas Mawson in 1931. The vessel, of only 736 tons, was built specially for Captain Scott’s expedition at x a cost of £52,000. It was reconditioned in 1925 at a cost of £90,000. “We are trying to raise sufficient funds to purchase this wonderful ship,’’ Mr Walker stated. “We are going to operate in the Australian sector known as Princess Elizabeth Land and Bazar© Land, and our activities will be of a geological nature. We hope to discover the coast line of the Antarctic which hitherto has evaded explorers who have set forth on these qu'ests.”