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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7027, 15 January 1910, Page 14

SHACKLETON’S NEXT DASH SOUTH. Our Christchurch correspondent telegraphs :—Eefcrring to Sir Ernest Shhokleton J s intention, to again make an attack on the South Pole, the "Lyttelton. Times" states that Weddell discovered the sea that bears'his .name in 1823, and he sailed his ship to a point'beyond tho seventyfourth parallel before he was stopped by heavy ice. - No later, explorer has succeeded in r penetrating as far south in this- direction,* and tho inner coast line has not been reached; Sir Ernest Shaokleton hopes that with a powerful ship he will bo able to push’ through the ice till he reaches the land, perhaps in a latitude little further from the pole than his old base in McMurdo Sound; The explored portion of Coates land is over 250 miles further south than any other known land outside the Boss Sea, so that at the worst the Weddell Sea route offers * a special inducement to. the new expedition. Sir Ernest will take at least twenty ponies in addition to motor sledges and dogs, and will make his. final start from Capetown (adds the “Times," apparently on information received by English rnlail). He will be handicapped in that he will almost certainly Have to face a longer sledging journey than will Captain Scott, but there is a possibility that he may find a gradual slope leading to the phnteau . which he gained last .year after a terrific struggle among the huge mountain ranges. ; • i