SIR E. SHACKLETON'S PLANS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 70

SIR E. SHACKLETON'S PLANS.

Sir Ernest and Lady Shackleton will leave England this month on a visit to the United States. The. former has said that if he shall decide to start at a later 1 date on another expedition to the South ■ Polar regions, the form which it would | probably take would he that of a scientific expedition for the- purpose of explori ing the region hetweeri Cape Adair and Gaussberg. He was looking forward with much pleasure -to meeting Commander Peary, who was to be one of Ills ! hosts in America, as Peary had done j splendid work in Polar exploration. The task which the American South Polar I expedition had set itself to perform was [ much harder than was generally reeog- . i nised, inasmuch as no one had ever landed ■ in the nlace where the explcr'np parry i proposed to land. ':•■ ■ Sir Ernest stated that- the scientific I results of Ins recent o.xpedHJon were i being rapidly worked,, out. and that by the end of ]\Tarr-b -some cf fha ivnovU would be published. The reports on the tmcrosconiaal work and the shells would ] be published very shortlv. and Sir I GeoT:"~ Darwin was working on the observations on the tide'. Pro'aesrr 'O-"" : d. F.R.S.. was at work in- iiWtrnlia on th<* general geology-, and :»Ir Pr""'Vy prother member of the staff, rwd gorte mztl to assist him. The distribution of of the geological collections among the princinal of Europe and 1 America- hjv) begun King Edward entertained a number of i people at dinner at Buckingham PaTa-ta this Sir Ernest Shackleton wasamong the guests.