ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS.
SCOTT SHOULD BE NEAR AT HAND. AMUNDSEN MAY COME FIRST. PROSPECTS OF FILCHNER. By Telegraph.— rreis Association.— (Received February 23. 9.15 p.m.)
London, February 23. In an interview, the Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, who got within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1909, declared that Captain Scott should leave McMurdo Sound on February 10, and should reach Stewart Island three weeks later; but Captain Amundsen, his Norwegian competitor, having helping winds, should reach Hobart at an earlier date. Sir Ernest added that probably Lieutenant Filchner's German expedition would be frozen in the Weddcl Sea: if not imprisoned it should arrive at Punta Arenas or Buenos Aires in April.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14929, 29 February 1912, Page 7
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112ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14929, 29 February 1912, Page 7
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