THE SOUTH POLE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10579, 9 March 1912, Page 5

THE SOUTH POLE

ATTAINED BY AMUNDSEN FROM 14th to 17th DECEMBER, STATEMENT BY SIR E. SHACKLETON. (Received Last Night, 11.20 o'clock.) LONDON, March 8. The Daily Chronicle has published a Christiana "telegram, signed Amund. sen, stating that the South Pole was attained from 14th to 17th December. TBic Chronicle publishes Capt, Amundsen's story to-morrow. Sir E. Shackle-ton states that Amundsen's taking three days continuous observations at the Pole would enable hian safely to assume its posiion accurately. A flying snapshot was less reliable than a continuous series of observations. He discusses whether Captain Scott readied the pole before the 14th December . RETICENCE OF CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN. REFUSES TO MAKE A STATEMENT. (Received March 8, 9.30 a.m.) HOBART, March 8. Captain Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, who went to the Antarctic over a year ago in an attempt to reach the South Pole, and who arrived here in the Fram yesterday afternoon, is reticent. He stated, however, that when he left Buenos Ayres, he went straight south to the ice, where on January 13th of last year he met Captain's Scott's Terra' Nova in the Bay of Whales. He made his base camp on the Ge.rat Ice Barrier, at longitude 164 West, and latitude 78 South. Here he remained with nine men while the Fram returned to Buenos Avres. Of the- work of the camp ho resolutely refused to speak. When- the i Pole was mentioned he became dumb, j He declined even to say on wnat , date he left the camp for Hobart. " Somcono remarked: You enjoyed ' good weather apparently. Captain Amundsen: We had not returned' to the Fram on January 16th,; when Captain Neilsen met the Japan--ese expedition,, which had readied the ■ ice barrier. - Captain Amundsen said he did not seo the Japanese and knew nothing of their position or plans. Asked as to future plans of his eipedition, he said he intends to stay a few days at Hobart, and then go on to Buenos-;Ayres, and thence round Cape Horn to San Francisco and up through Behring Straits. It is his purpose, to try to follow the original plan of drifting across the Arctic with the ice coming out between Greenland and Spitzbergen. . , Captain Amundsen is the on.v member of the expedition who lane eel. Prcssmeu visited the Fram, bat were not allowed to go on board or to engage in conversation with the. crew. ' Captain Amundsen regrets that he is unable to give any informatna .:. view of the kindness he has received, but the engagement he lwd made rendered that utterly impossible. As ..soon as he can,he will show has marts and give the fullest information, he t->ok one hundred and three Greenland sledge-dogs, and brought back only ,«. CAPTAIN SCOTT. REPORT NOT CON FIBM ED. (Received March 8, 12,30 p.m.) LONDON. March 7. The evening newspapers are displaying a Wellington telegram' stating; t-hat Captain Amundsen reports that Scott has reached the South Pole. . The report is not confirmed at Chris, tiaroa., as King Haakon has not received Capt. Amundsen's report.