SCOTTISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 2

SCOTTISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

EXTENSIVE .PROGRAMME FOR 1911. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 2nd April. It is stated that William Bruce, of the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, has made more detailed plans of another Antarctic Expedition to leave this country in 1911, the cost of which is estimated at £50,000. It is proposed to carry on extensive oceanographical work in the South Atlantic Ocean between the south of Buenos Ayres and Capetown, as well as in the Weddell and Biscoe Seas, the mapping of the coast line of Antractica to the east and west of Coats Land, and the investigation of the interior lof Antarctica in that longitude. Part of the project includes a journey across the Antarctic Continent, starting at some suitable base in the vicinity of Coats Land, and emerging at M'Murdo Bay, Victoria Land, or King Edward Land. Several motor sledges of a small and handy type will be used, as well as ponies and dogs. The ship will not remain at the winter (Juarters, but, after landing stores and equipment for three years, and refitting at Capetown, will proceed to' New Zealand, and thereafter during the second season, to M'Murdo Bay or King .Edward Land, in order to lay out caches for, and meet the explorers emerging on the" New Zealand side of Antarctica. Tho pi'ogramme includes ti cimimpolar bathymetrical survey, especially in relation of the study of former continental connections. The Coats Land station will be relieved during the third seasoru