RESEARCH IN ANTARCTIC.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XLIX, Issue 5121, 17 November 1925, Page 2

RESEARCH IN ANTARCTIC.

NEW VOYAGE OF THE DISCOVERY.

For the past four or five weeks there has been lying off Dartmouth, the Royal Research Ship Discovery, being refitted and overhauled from stem to stern before embarkign. on a new expedition to the Antarctic." Arrangements had been made that she should sail last week, but the work of refitting and storing her for hsr long stay in the South could not be completed in time, and her departure was delayed until, last Tuesday. The voyage of the Discovery is being undertaken for furely scientific research work. The ship is commanded by Captain J. R. Stepi house, R.N.R., and the following' arethe other officers and scientists of the expedition :— Lieutenant Commander W. H. O'Connor, R.N.R. (first lieutenant), Mr T. W. Goodchild (third officer), Lieutenant Commander J. M. Chaplin, R.N.R. (navigating officer), En-gineer-Lieutenant-Commander W. C. Horton, R.N. (chief engineer), Mr A. " N. P'orteous (second engineer), Dr S. W. Kemp (director of research), and Messrs E. H. Marshall, A. C. Hardy, •J. E. Hamilton, E. R, Gunteiv and H. E. P. Hardman ; three cadets— Messrs W. P. O'Connor, John Bentley and F. Peas. The crew numbers 30 hands. One of the principal aims of 'the expedition is to study , the habit's, migratory passages, and feedinggrounds of whales, from which great benefit is anticipated for the whaling industry. The Antarctic seas and the South Atlantic and Pacific, Oceans will be subjected to continual soundings and other observations,"• md a considerable part of the ship's .vork will be that of surveying the f'ar Southern regions. The expedition, which has been largely financed \v the Government of the Falkland!: 'slands, is likely to extend over a peiiod of two and a half to threeyears.

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