THE DISCOVERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 8

THE DISCOVERY.

SCOTTS SHIP AGAIN. NEW EXPLORATIONS. i A GEOLOGICAL QUEST. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, December 10. Twenty-five years ago this week 1 reached the South Pole 34 days ahead of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the British explorer who perished with his comrades on the return jour* ney. Now Captain Scott's r&mous ship, the Discovery, in which he made his first attempt to reach the Pole in 1901, may make its way again through the ice floes. Thirty-four British explorers are going in search of new regions. They will be known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 193/, and they expect to sail from this country early. In March. The expedition win be in command of Mr. E. W. Walker, a young explorer, who was one of the •lames Bay Geological Expedition to the. Arctic in 1930 and 1931. This will be the first time Mr. Walker has been to the Antarctic. The Discovery has lain idle in East India Dock since she came back from the Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Douglas Mawson in 1831. The vessel, of only 730 tons, was built specially for Captain Scott's expedition at a cost of £?2,000. It was reconditioned in 1925 at a cost of £90,000. "We are trying to raise sufficient funds to purchase this wonderful ship," Mr. Walker stated. "We are hoping that she will enable us to achieve subcess in our enterprise. We are going to operate in the Australian sector known as Princess Elizabeth Land and Banzare Land, and our activities will be of a geological nature. We hope to discover the coastline of the Antarctic, which hitherto has evaded explorers j who have set forth on these quests."