NOTED EXPLORER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21782, 23 April 1934, Page 9

NOTED EXPLORER

DEATH ANNOUNCED MR. C. E. BORCHGREVINK (Received April 22, 6.35 p.m.) OSLO, April 21 The death has occurred of Mr. Cartsens Borchgrevink, well-known Norwegian explorer. The late Mr. Cartsens Egeberg Borchgrevink, then a young Norwegian resident in Australia, in 1894 shipped as an ordinary seaman on the Norwegian whaler Antarctic, which. Captain Svsnd Foyn, a well-known whaleship owner, was sending to expore the South Polar regions. On January 23, 1895, Captain Christensen and Mr. Borchgrevink landed on the mainland near Cape Adare, Victoria Land, the first people to set foot on the Antarctic continent.

Mr. Borchgrevink in 1898 organised an expedition in and in August left the Thames in charge of a private expedition equipped by Sir George Newnes, on the ship Southern Cross. The vessel forced her way through the pack ice—after having been beset for 48 days—and reached Cape Adare on February 17, 1899. The land party established a base and they spent the first year ever passed by man on Antarctic land in making natural history collections and keeping meteorological and magnetic observations.

The ship set out for the south on February 2, 1900, "with the "shore party, and landings were made on several islands and on the mainland, and at the base of Mount Terror. They then steamed eastward along the Barrier, and went as high as latitude 78 degrees 34 minutes south, where Mr. Borchgrevink landed, with sledges and dogs. The Royal Geographical Society, in March, 1930, awarded its Patron's Medal to Mr. Borchgrevink, for Ma pioneer Antarctic expedition.