POLAR EXPLORATION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 65, 18 March 1910, Page 6

POLAR EXPLORATION.

SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON IN RUSSIA. AUDIENCE WITH THE CZAR. Letters received by last week's mail state that Sir Ernest Shackleton had >a remarkably enthusiastic reception in liussia. His lecture on January 25 was .attended by the largest gathering of the kind ever seen in St. Petersburg, there being an audience of over 2000 in the Alexander room of the City Hall. A great many did not understand English, but came to do honor to the intrepid young explorer and to see the pictures taken in tho heart of the Antarctic. Sir Ernest was presented with the Comstantine Gold Medal of the Geographical Society. Amongst other notables present were M. Isvolsky, Several naval and military officers, and members of the Foreign Embassies. Sir Ernest had the honor of being received in audience by the Czar, who conferred upon him the.' Order of St. Anne. The Cbnstantine Gold Medal given, him by the Geographical Society has not been presented to anyone for nearly seventy years. Sir Ernest had two hours' conversation with the Czar, whom he admired greatly. He was also charmed with the hospitality of the Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna and other distinr guished Russians who entertained him.