TRIBUTE TO EXPLORER

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 59, 13 March 1929, Page 9

TRIBUTE TO EXPLORER

UNKNOWN ANTARCTICA!

BYRD GIVES IT A NAME

Du!t«d Preu Asiodatlon—By EttetxU Ttto* ertph—Copyrlrbt United (Service. (By Russell Owen.—Special to "New York Times.") (Keceivcd 13th March, 11 a.m.) BAY OF WHALES, 11th March. Commander Byrd has named a part of the region explored by him after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, tho famous explorer, who contributed so greatly to our knowledge of this continent. He rgsts with his companions on the other side of this barrier on which we arc living. Scott Land lies between King Edward Land and latitude 80deg 30min south and west of the 150 th meridian, which is the eastern boundary of the Boss Dependency. This area includes the large mountains discovered by Byrd, and is undoubtedly true land overlaid with a cap of ice and snow, a great area.truly worthy of the man whose name it bears. . :■■. .■>■■ The limits of King Edward Land have never been defined, inasmuch as the only persons to : set foot there before the Byrd expedition were three members of Amundsen's expedition who made a trip to the Nunataks. The region was discovered and named by Scott on his first voyage in the Discovery, but, he did not land there, because he did not at that time believe the conditions would permit them to do so, but on the charts King Edward Land has beea recognised as the region, near the coast and: including the Scott Nunataks; so it seems fitting that his name should be given to the large area to the south of King Edward Land up to Amundsen's so-called "appearance of land," the beginnings of which were first seen by him. There'are many regions on the coast of Antarctica and near each pther which bear 'different names, such as Adelie Land, King George Land, and Oates Land. Commander Byrd is sure as the result of his flights that land begins just to the east of the Bay of Whales, whether or not it is under the southern limits of the bay in the form of islands. (Copyrighted 1928 by "New York Times? ComWf "St. Louis Post-Dispatch." All rights for publication reserved throughout trie world.]. • .