THE FROZEN SOUTH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 May 1925, Page 8

THE FROZEN SOUTH.

. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. COMING MOTOR TRIP. LONDON, May 3. Interest will he aroused in the latest project for ' Antarctic exploration, known here as the Bernacchi expedition. It is not connected with the expedition in the Discovery, which is to he financed by the people in the Falkland. Islands to. study whales from the scientific and commercial point of view. The expedition will he led. by Mr. L. 0. Bernacchi, a Tasmanian, ‘4B years of age, who was physicist to the Southern Cross Antarctic- expedition of 1898 and to the Discovery expedition . He. has also, .travelled extensively in British ' Namaqualand, former German South-West Africa, and Peru' (the upper Amazon basin). Mr. Bernacchi first threw effective . doubts. on. the bona fides of Dr. Cook, the American who claimed; to have reached the North Pole, and from .whose exposure Sir Philip Gibbs secured. much publicity. ‘■‘A,l| the plans are prepared for the expedition which I am to command,” said Mr. Bernacchi, when interviewed. “However, until the financial arrangements are complete, I cannot disclose the details of the date of departure. “We went to Normay and carried out most satisfactory trials with caterpillar motor tractors on. snow and ice. The expedition will he topographical. We will endeavour to fill up the geographical gaps in the Antarctic. It is our intention to cross the Antarctic Continent by mechanical transport, starting operations somewhere south of New Zealand.