PLAN SHOWING ROUTES OF PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS.
Lioutenans Shackleton intended to follow the route, of Captain Scott's expedition of 1902 (shown in the above plan), and from its terminus mako a dash for the South Pole. The- plan also shows Mount Erebus, in tho vicinity of which Lieutenant Shackleton fixed his winter quarters.
used, aud ga"e every satisfaction. "We reckon that the Nimrod has put up throe Antarctic records," said Mr. Dunlop. "First, she is the first ship to enter thoso seas with one boiler and a three-blade propeller. Second, she is tho first ship to reach the most southerly iiomt, 7,~ 45!. Third, she made the fastest return passage from Antarctica, haying been twelve and a half days from Capo ltoyds to Otago Heads."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 464, 24 March 1909, Page 8
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124PLAN SHOWING ROUTES OF PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 464, 24 March 1909, Page 8
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