SHACKLETO EXPEDITION.
TWO PARTIES SET SAIL, 5 !! SECTION FOE HOBART. 3 By Telegraph— Association— (Received September 20, 2.15 p.m.) London, September is. Sib Ernest Shackleton's expedition has sailed in two parties. Sir Ernest Shackleton, with seventy dogs and motor sledges, has gone to Buenos Aires, whence he will sail for the Weddell Sea by the steamer Endurance. The Ross Sea party has left for Hob art. It is Sir Ernest Shackleton's intention to cross the South Polar Continent from sea to sea—from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. The first part of the journeythat from the Weddell Pea to the South Pole—will take the expedition over a tract of frozen country on which no man has ever looked. By the time the du. tance of 1700 statute miles h?s been covered, and the travellers emerge once more into the familiar world, they expeel to have acquired a great dan! of i refe knowledge. In order that this iru.y be of the fullest and most exact character Sir Ernest Shackleton is taking with him trained biologists, geologists, and phvicists. The ships are to be eauipped "for sounding and dredging, and it is hoped to bring back live, penguins and seals, which have not hitherto been taken from i the Antarctic regions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15719, 21 September 1914, Page 4
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