ANTARCTIC COMPETITORS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12707, 9 March 1912, Page 2

ANT ARCTIC COMPETITORS.

■ (AUdtralian Press Specials.) , ,;. LO'NDON, March 1. _ in, the course of a, controversy regarding/ the chances of the various kVUh Polar expedit^^^ifeiprTlest -Shacjkleton made some interesting remarks- on the prpbable of rjth'e explorers. ;.:OT-,^etive expeditions that are flfelqgg |ojc r ths.,§ i ou>h j . hft thinks those qghimanded by Ca^.tajai Scott: > (British) an ft VfP^W • . Amnnrdsen ' (Na^egaan) Will be the first to x;eaQh,t|iV;South x^?°^v 4^l flW*-.^ vtofc l^iptaiß Sco.tt,^,. leave hia Kase in §tTdil> *,\ ? %o earliesY ppssible ntfiSnent, % Hh^^ißepoH^ Vvfek in Eebruary he reaeh Stewart isAWk *M !-^§W fealani in three weeks, st^ppjng t^' .pick '-.'-Ma; party felt at Qap^ "■iVdivir. Oaptaiii Amundseii will nuika his way to HQbartJrom th©,Bay Of;' Whales, •/arid ,; although ' 'his , return jo'ub'e^ jyill'lie l^iigjir'tha.n t^at 'taken by his HVMjthe^otVegian will' have better wShda,' shtaSld enable him to ("reachtport first. - Dr Mawadii, continued Sir Ernest; 'sKoi^d, reach Robart abott tfiA b.eftinnih|fif|f Apfil \yft^ n!e\v§ of the existßriq^ 'oj A &\^a.)k§^ land. .Jt & 'p^abJfp that ine fiertnans wiHJie fW«; «P« i n ■ Wedrfell , Sea, nud Sir 35i'n«esj> ;^at .^h^ fli«t ,(u be heavd of the : V^rnjan oaptftln will bo at Bueno^ Aylr^si: Tl\f> jppaneße expedition ( Js n,ot regarded as serjous enoiigh to be taken 'into accounti.