THE SOUTH POLE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 766, 15 March 1910, Page 5

THE SOUTH POLE.

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S PREPARATIONS. Bj Tolecraph—PreSß Association—Copyright.. I London, March 13. . Captain Scott, 11. N., is making preparations for his coming South Polar expedition, He rocently*.bought at Christiania, Norway, sixty Polar sledges and fifty pairs of ski.

PLANS EXPLAINED

Captain Scott attended a meeting of tha' London Miniature Rifle League at its headquarters in Ijivmgton Street, Southwark, recently, Being invited to give some account of his plans for the forth-, coming South Polar expedition,. Captain Scott said that ho had got a ship in. the London docks called the Terra .Nova, and he hoped that she would start. from this country in June. They would have 25 men in the crow, and when they left New Zealand, which was the- final departing place, they would have another 28 men who were to form the landing party.. They were . going south to M'Murdo Sound, the same quarters as used by Sir Ernest Shackleton, and would land 22 men there, and 'then he hoped to go to a part where no one had yet landedKing Edward's Land—and in that place' he would deposit a small party of six. The object of that was-that it was so interesting, to get comparative meteorological observations, and the party would also try to work out the geography of the region. • He hoped to lcavo New Zealand in November, and get down in December. In January the huts should be erected and the party landed with their stores. That would be half-way through the' summer. In February and March he hoped to do some 'laying out of depots, taking about 20 ponies, 25 dogs, and somei motorslodges which were being built in this country. The main journey for the Polo would probably start in .October, 1911. They had got to get over 800 'miles, and the probability was that they could, not do more than 10 or 15 miles n day. That would, bring .them to the middle of December before they-got to the South Pole —if they wcro going to get there at all.