ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
♦- FURTHER EXfLORATIOK Prcsi Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, January 10. The ‘ News-Chronicle ’ says that Mr H. G. Watkins, who spent two yearn in aerial survey work in Greenland, is leadinc an expedition to the Antarctic in October. He will proceed to Weddell Sea, and thence try to cross the icefields via the Pole to South Victoria Land. . Speaking at the Antarctic Club’s reunion dinner, Commander Bernacehi said he expected that Mr Watkins would do good work. While the gathering was standing silent as a tribute to lost polar explorers, Shackleton’s voice was heard on a gramophone describing the work of the Nimrod expedition in 1907, and naming the three survivors who were then present.
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Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 7
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114ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 7
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