ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3149, 29 March 1909, Page 5

ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION

THE EXPERIENCE GAINED. SHOULD MAKE FOR SUCCESS AT NEXT ATTEMPT. SYDNEY, March 27. The "ligrald," enlarging on Lieutenant Shackleton's work, says the experience gained ought to make possible success at the next attempt on the Pole over the same route. "A FINAL DASH." CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. Lieutenant Shackleton has rot yet decided whether he will make further Antarctic explorations, but the probabilities are that the next expedition in the direction of the South Pole will be led by him. For a final dash for the pole, however, more elaborate arrangements will be made. The supporting parties will be bigger, the number of depots larger and the appliances more complete. Lieutenant Shackleton is naturally much disappointed at failing to reach the pole when only ninety-seven miles off, but the pilght of the small party was so desperate that it was either death or return.

Those know Lieutenant ShacKleton say that had he been alone he would have pushed on at all hazards. He informed a reporter that the matter of reaching the pole was by no means an impossibility, but better equipment was required than what he was provided with.

From what he saw of the surrounding country the situation of the pole would be somewhere on the high plateau discovered by his expedition. This plateau is veryj irregular apd makes very hard travelling, and further from its altitude is swept b.v severe blizzards which are one of the worst difficulties encountered.

Regarding the Nimrod, Lieutenant Shackkton stated,, that she was to go back to England.