ANTARCTIC CRUISE

Evening Star, Issue 20636, 8 November 1930, Page 15

ANTARCTIC CRUISE

ARRANGEMENTS MADE SHIP TO CALL AT AUCKLAND LONDON, October 30. At least one woman will accompany Commander Stenhouse in his Antarctic cruise in the ytella Polaris to the Ross Sea—the first Antarctic, tourist cruise —in December. Commander Stenhouse stated to-day that ho expects to reach Auckland, New Zealand, via Panama, on January 25. Ho will sail next day for the Ross Sea, via Campbell Island. He will go to King Edward VII. Land and call at the Bay of Whales and Amundsen’s and Byrd’s bases and Discovery inlet. Then he will skirt the Great Ice Barrier, going into M'Murdo Sound to see Scott’s and Shackleton’s huts, landing oh the barrier at the Bay of Whales. . “Mr Henry Ford asked me to bring back the engines of Admiral Byrd’s monoplane, which he was compelled to abandon last summer,” said Commander Stenhouse. He Added that the Antarctic was the world’s greatest health resort. At least one explorer lost his consumption there. The Stella Polaris will reach Hobart on February 19, Sydney on February 22, and thence go via Java, India, and the Suez Canal, home. Commander Worsley, a New Zealander, also a Norwegian whaling export, and Dorothy, Countess of Lanesborongh, are going to see whales electrocuted, the latest method of slaughter which is being successfully tried out in tbo Ross Sea. It is claimed that there is no better cure for rheumatism than being rolled uj> in a blanket of fresh blubber. The minimum faro for the cruise, will bo £SOO. The Stella Polaris is a motor ship of 5,020 gross tonnage, and was built as a tourist ship in 1927. She is a “ luxury ship,” and was the first to bo propelled by internal combustion engines. Commander Stenhouse was a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expeditious to tho Antarctic,