DISCOVERY EXPEDITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19269, 5 September 1924, Page 7

DISCOVERY EXPEDITION

WHALING RESEARCH WORK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September o. The Colonial Office is arranging with the Marine Station at South Georgia to co-operate with Captain Scott’s ship Discovery in whaling research work in the Antarctic in 1925.—A. and N.Z. Cable. The auxiliary schooner Discovery, in which the late Captain Scott made his memorable voyage to the Antarctic .s at present being re-conditioned at Portsmouth, having been acquired by the I alkland Islands Government for research work among whales in the South Georgian and other seas. The principal task of the expedition, which will be commanded bv Lieutenant J. R. Stenhouse (who was in Dunedin some years ago as a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s polar expedition), will be to ascertain the geographical imits of the stock of whales, to trace their migrations, and to form some idea ot their numbers and the rate of reproduction, but the investigation will also afford opportunities for adding to scientific knowledge in many other directions. The Discovery was specially built for Captain Scott’s expedition at a cost of £51,000, and was afterwards sold to the Hudson’s Bay Company. She is a wooden vessel with a frame of solid oak, and was described by Captain Scott as “the finest vessel which was ever built for exploring purposes.’’