POLAR REGIONS.
AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY. TTDE OF SETTLEMENT NORTHWARDS. BY CA.BMS-PB.F~SS ASSOCIATION—COP YBIGHI LONDON, Aug. -31. That the Atlantic Continent was still based on circumstantial evidence, was stressed by Mr Rudmose Brown, president of the geographical section at the British Association conference. Encleiloy Land, the one certain land, had 3000 miles of hypothetical coastline not seriously searched for since its discov cry in IS3I. No ship had penetrated the western shores of the Weddell Sea. A great gap remained between Charcot and Edward’s Land, which was unexplored The costly nature of the exploration by this i rea rendered an effort unlikely by impoverished Europe. The necessary’ funds would not he available for years hence. They’ looked to the great new nations of the Southern Hemisphere to carry out the work. Turning to the Northern Hemisphere he prophesied that eventually the tide of white settlement would definitely set northward, even to the Arctic -Seas. t(. was not presumptuous to 'say that a hundred yc-ars would witness it.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 September 1927, Page 5
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