NO EXPLORERS IN A.D. 2000.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 53, 27 March 1909, Page 4

NO EXPLORERS IN A.D. 2000.

The )»e.-< nt will see tin l last ol the evplorei*. for .Hie simple, reason that by 'flic time tin* next one airrives .there will he no more unknown Lands'in the world left' to conquer. This pounds strange, hut it is true, nevertheless. 'Take Africa, for example, lien not yel. middle can remember when its interior was a hlank or,i the map, There h hardly a ninjrle district iu it now where the advent of a strange white nib 11 would cause imieli more coiunuiul I luiu would thut of a, strange hla<*k one iu .I'kladiVlv,

i)r. "Sven Jlediius last journey has covered praeiti'eally all Tibet that \va< previously nnk'no'wn. The of Southern Arabia, have nil been 'mapped save one isinall portion, and «l ; hnt is jnow being attacked bv «iu expedition led bv JUr. (!. AW Wuv..' Lic'ut.enamt iShackelton is at this IprestJnt. moment' lnotormg over the inland few of ae AntflrAle toward* the Soulh fhde. Caip't'ain A'nnimlven starts .shortly in Nauson's oU slup, the Kram, in an, Attempt UMlrifl io tlic Xorlh Pob. ■ A dozen 'expeditions are busy in what Vetunims unexplored of tire interior of Ww <iiimea,-aii'd jut- leu-U as many more 'arc surveying ithe forest dis'trivts yet 'n.ntroddi'u hy white men in lira/.il ami ■llolivia. I'aiagouia li'a.s now beeu traversed from elid to end, and wo-.U mid across, and (hero i* no new ground to explore. Australia. which u>ed a little, while bat-k to he -white on tin- ma.ps with n dense frifiigi' of names round .the eoasi. is no'W inteil-ecled nlmost everywhere by telegraph linvs anjd railways. (Irern'land Ims hrvu crossed more than onee 'at diflVreiit points. So. too, haH Spit/.'hergen. and yvt another expedition' U 'mAv on its way under Captain baaeh* "sen. Xo. lakeu altogether. the oUillooU 'for the expbrer of the - future is of 'then able to, voyage to Mill's in search, 'of adventure, or to Xeplune. |