SCIENTIST OF ANTARCTIC VENTURES

Evening Star, Issue 22272, 25 February 1936, Page 3

SCIENTIST OF ANTARCTIC VENTURES

Ofl PRIESTLY REVISITS MW ZEALAND [Per United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, February 24. “This is the first time I have been in the South Island since 1 returned to New Zealand in the Terra Nova with Scott’s Antarctic expedition.” said Dr R. E. Priestley. M.C.M.Z., vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, who was a passenger from Melbourne in the Manama. “ I am on my way to attend the congress of the universities of the Empire to be held at Cambridge in July, and during ray stay in the Dominion 1 hope to visit the four universities.” Dr Pi ■icstley in 190 S proceeded to the Antarctic in the Nimrod with the Shackleton ' expedition. The ship loft New Zealand on January ], 1908, and was in the Antarctic - waters for 15 months. The southern party on this

expedition, consisting of Shackleton, Marshall, Adams, and Wild, passed Scott’s farthest south point after 25 days’ marcliing and reached within 07 geographical miles of the Pole. Tha return journey was handicapped by short rations and the members of tha party arrived back exhausted to find the Nimrod awaiting them. In 1910 Dr Priestley returned south with the ’ British Antarctic expedition led by Scott. He was a member of the northern party led by Lieutenant Victor Campbell which spent an Antarctic winter under terrible conditions. Because of tha heavy ice tbc Terra Nova could not. reach the party and so the members had to pass the winter in ainjice cave*