OVER SOUTH POLE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 91, 12 January 1932, Page 7

OVER SOUTH POLE

Plans of Young Explorer EXPEDITION IN OCTOBER (Rec. January 11, 7.45 p.m.) London, January 10. The “News-Chronicle” says that Mr. H. G. Watkins, who spent two years air-surveying in Greenland, will lead an expedition to the Antarctic in October. ' He will proceed to the Weddell Sea, then try to cross the icefields via the Pole to South Victoria Land. Speaking at the Antarctic Club’s reunion dinner, Commander Berrfacchl said he expected that "Mr. Watkins would do good work. While the gathering was standing silent as a tribute to lost Polar explorers, tho late Sir Ernest Shackleton’s voice was heard on a gramophone describing the work of the Nimrod expedition in 1907 and naming three of the survivors who were present in the room.

11. G. Watkins was the youthful leader of the British survey expedition to the Greenland ice-cap last winter. His party's movements attracted attention when it became known that one of the members, Augustine Courtauld, who had spent the winter alone on the ice-cap, could not be reached by his companions. Courtauld was rescued early in October.