ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13766, 3 June 1908, Page 7

ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

COMMANDER PEARY'S PLANS. . By Telegraph— Press Association.—Copyriffii:LONDON, June I. Commander Peary, President, of the Polar Club, and leader of" several expeditions to the North Polar re- • gions, is projecting an expedition to Antarctica. The expedition will hot be led by Commander Peary, but he will undertake the organising of it- * ■ " ,'•'■' A paragraph that no doubt has refer* ence to the projected expedition appeared recently in one of the New York pa-pert*, '"A wealthy Argentine citizen," itstates', "has arrived here in pursuit of a plan-*to equip an expedition to the South Pole. Don Felipe Bevricr is his name. Re i* not only backed by the Argentine Government, but says be is ready to devotw of his own money to lie pro- , jecl. Early in 1900 he expects to plant the Hag of the Argentine Republic at the South Pole. He will be accompanied by several American engineers!, and will rely largely on Esquimo dogs, of which he has collected 400. After storing bfod and establishing stations on Victoria Land, : Senor Bcyrier intends to dash for the South Pole in Hied* in the came way as Pert will dash for the North Pole. His trip to New York was dictated principally by a desire to confer with Commander ; Peary us to the dOtstila of such a plan. The Argentine man believes the South Pole ought, to be easier of access than the North Pole, because the Antarctic winters arc not. go severe as are those of the Arctic region. Moreover, he savs, the gr*at, fields of ice do not break up in the sum,mcr, and there are not such great atmospheric disturbances. He believes the South Pole is surrounded by a. Vast frozen ocean, over which it v. ill be,comparatively easy to travel."