FIELDS FOR EXPLORATION.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3258, 28 September 1928, Page 4

FIELDS FOR EXPLORATION.

<' We must not think that the' period of explorations and discoveries is finished," said General Nicola Vacehelli, in his presidential address to the Interr national Geographical Union, at Cambridge. "The Arctic and Antarctic require further methodical exploration, and need new martyrs. The centre of Asia and equatorial Africa have yet to give the world their resources. The atmosphere, now a new route of communication, needs new investigations and further studies, but the most important thing to-day for the economist, the politician and the business man is a complete cartographic knowledge of the known world, the explana-; tory illustration of the territories within reach of human expansion, and the comparative study of partially known regions. An extensive knowledge of the earth is no longer sufficient. Man needs also an intensive knowledge of it. Modern technique has placed at man's disposal the swiftest means of communication. Great distances today can be covered in a short time. If to this consideration we add the fact that the world's population is rapidly increasing and needs new resources we see how clearly paved is the way to geographical studies which have to assume—and are, indeed, assuming—particular ethnical characteristics, as well as political and economic ones."