FOR THE SOUTH POLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 17 August 1908, Page 5

FOR THE SOUTH POLE.

A FRENCH EXPEDITION.

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PARIS, AugUßt 16.

Charcott's Antarctic expedition proceeds first to Terre Loubet and Alexander the First Land. It then proceeds south-west in order to fix the southern limits of Eastern Pacific and finally tries to join the British expedition under Lieut. Shackleton. The expedition expects to be absent two years.