COMING RACE FOR SOUTH POLE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7046, 7 February 1910, Page 1

COMING RACE FOR SOUTH POLE

TWO EXPEDITIONS DIFFICULTIES FOR AMERICANS TO FADE. AN UNKNOWN Ay Telegraph—Presj Association—Copyright. (Received i'obruary 6, 5 p.m.) < LONDON, February 5. Sir Ernest Shackleton, who led the successful British expedition which established a " farthest South" record last year, has been interviewed in connection with Commander Peary's plans for a new Antarctic expedition, which will probably be jointly financed by the Arctic Club of America and the National Geographical Society of the United States.

Ho says that the starting base of Peary's new expedition will be 200 miles more to the north than Captain Soott's base on McMurdo Sound, in Victoria Land. Hp is inclined to doubt .whether the Americans can land, because the regions they will find there aro quite unknown to them. The Americans, he says, will be further 'handicapped by having to journey over entirely new ground, whereas Captain Scott will have the advantage of retraversing the route which his own (Sir Ernest Shackleton's) party followed to within ninetyseven miles of the South Pole.

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S GEOLOGIST. AN AUSTRALIAN CJHOSEiN. Mr Griffiths, as native of Sydney, New South "Wales, who is at present studying at Cambridge, has "been appointed geologist to. Captain Scott's expedition, which will leave New Zealand in November, and will ■ spend JanuaTy in erecting huts, and February and March in making provision depots for 30U miles, before settling down for the winter.