ANTARTICA.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1127, 7 March 1910, Page 2

ANTARTICA.

A GERMAN EXPEDITION

AND AYHEN THE POLE IS

REACHED!

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Received March 7, 8.5 a.m.) Berlin, March 6. First Lieutenant Filchncr, of the German General Staff, who has been an explorer in Tibet, Pamir, and Turkestan, will lead the German Antaratj< expedition, which hopes to start ir. October, 1910.

The expedition will proceed as far :v: tho base of 'Wfcldel Sea, and cross the continent. On reaching the Pole, instead of turning back, it will folio -v S • Ernest Shackleton's rout© to Ross ftca, meeting midway at the provision depot established by a subsidiary expedition from Ross Sea.

If two ships participate in the expedition tho cost will be £100.000, and if one ship participates the oo .t will be £60,000.

A high personage lias anonymously contributed £15,000, and others £3000 towards the cost of the expedition. Lieut. Filchner explained his plans at a meeting of the Geographical Society in Berlin. • Professor Nertlenskjold, the famous Norwegian Arctic explorer, who was present, expressed his approval of them.