ANTARCTICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3593, 23 January 1923, Page 28

ANTARCTICA.

SOLUTION OF ITS PROBLEMS. WELLINGTON, January 15. Sir Douglas Mawson lectured to-night at the Town Hall under the auspices of the Australasian Association for. the .Advancement of Science, his subject being “Antarctica.” The hall was crowded to the doors, and the lecturer had a most flattering reception. During the course of his lecture he said that, in common with every other region of the world, the great Antarctic zone held data of vital importance to science in the solution of its problems. If, therefore, a general advance of scientific inquiry was to go forward unhampered, investigation of at.least the broader aspects of Antarctic research must proceed hand in hand with the march of scientific inquiry in other lands, so that, apart from exploring the economic possibilities, and apart from the achievement of being the first to reach the Pole, the prosecution of purely scientific investigation in that region was very desirable so far as opportunity and financial consideration would allow. The lecture (was profusely illustrated by slides and films depicting the topography of the country, and its ice fields and ice floes, the bird animal life in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, and the penguin pictures being especially popular. At the close of the lecture Sir Douglas Mawson received a great ovation.