SIR E. SHACKLETONS' PLANS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10023, 20 April 1910, Page 4

SIR E. SHACKLETONS' PLANS.

Sir Ernest aid Lady Shackleton will j leave England thia month on a visit to the United States. The former has said that if he shall decide to start at a later date on another expedition to the South Polar regions, theform which it would probably take would ba that of a scientific expedition fcr the purpose of exploring the r region between Cape Adair and Gauasberg. He was looking forward with much pleasure to meeting Commander Peary, who was to be one of his hosts in America, as Peary had done splendid work in Polar exploration. Ths task which the American South Polar expedition had set itself to perform wns much harder than was generally recognised, inasmuch as no one had ever landed in the place where the exploring party proposed to land, Sir Ernest stated that the scientific results of his recent expedition were being rapidly worked out, and that by the end ot March some ot the reports would be published. The reports on the microscopical work and the shells would be published very shortly, and Sir George Darwin was working on the observations on the tides. Professor David, F.R.S., was at work in Australia on the general geology, and Mr Priestley, another member of the staff, ,had gone out to assist him. The distribution of some of the geological collections among the principal museums of Europe and America had begun.