ACROSS ANTARCTICA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1932, Page 9

ACROSS ANTARCTICA

IN SHACKLETON'S STEPS

YOUNG EXPLORER'S PLANS

LONDON, 10th January. 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 tho Weddell Sea, then to try to eros tho icefields via the Polo to South Victoria Land. Speaking at the Antarctic Club's reunion dinner, Commander Bernacchi said that he expected that Mir. Watkins would do good work. While the gathering was standing silent as a tribute to. lost Polar explorers, the 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.

H. 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, Aiigustine Courtauld, who had spent the winter alone on the ice-cap, could not be reached by his companions. Courtauld was rescued early in October. Shackleton in, his ill-fated 1914 expedition planned to cross the Antarctic Continent by tho same 'route, but the loss of his ship in the \Veddell Sea was the end of the venture.