ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12410, 21 March 1911, Page 5

ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

; (Press Awn.-^By teJegraph.-^-Copytight.) ' LONDON, March SKK I Sir Ernest Shackleton paid a generous tribute to D.r Douglas Mawson m connection with Antarctic exploration. " He added that Australasia gave the first official help to the 1907 expedition, «nd he hoped that the Home Country would now show sympathy with • the Aub tralian expedition. In a remarkable paper communicated tp the Royal Society Sir George Darwin, Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, examines the records of tides obtained by Sir Ernest Stiackleton's is|n,^jctio (expedition, compares them with tbose obtained by Captain Scott m 1903 1 , and. arrives at the conclusion that they suggest $he existence of a d^ep^bay, stretching across, arid "almost cutting m two, the great Antarctic continent. "It is all highly speculative," said Sir George Darwin, '. referring to this theory of a great Antarctic bay, "but such a, body of water as I have imagined alone , seems to- explain certain remarkable oscillations noticeable m the tidal observations of Scott and Styackelton. I have judged its depth to be from 100 to 150 .fathoms and it* length from 24deg. to 30deg. of latitude (some 2000 miles)." . .