TO THE ANTARCTIC.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10752, 27 April 1911, Page 4

TO THE ANTARCTIC.

[By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) London,- April 26. Professor Nansen, in a letter to the Times on Amundsen's Antarctic expedition, savs that an unfair act of any kind is'entirely alien to Amundsen's character. Amundsen, in a letter to him, had amplified, what was cabled on the sth, and added that Peary's success led to the withdrawal of .support from his North Pole expedition. . He stated, he was not landing near Captain Scott's expedition. Nansen remarks: "Had I known of the change of plan, I might have warned him that it was too hard a strain first to proceed on a trying South Polar expedition, and then straightway to a drift voyage across the North Polar basin, which, is calculated to occupy five years." . He approves of Captain Darwin's speech, cabled on the 11th, that the two bases are too far apart, and says both explorers will supplement each other's discoveries.