HONOUR FOR ELLSWORTH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 5

HONOUR FOR ELLSWORTH

POLAR EXPLORATION ANTARCTIC IMPRESSIONS WASHINGTON, April 16. Both in accepting the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Roosevelt, and afterwards in a lecture before the society on his recent Antarctic trip, Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth to-night emphasised that the most important incident of his recent trip across the Antarctic was the raising of the Stars and Stripes in that territory of 350,000 square miles of vast, untamed land and the last unclaimed territory on earth.

He explained that his flight revealed new evidence that the Andes Mountains of the South American Continent continue under the sea to the Antarctic and may extend across the South Polar Continent, and this tended to confirm the belief that the Antarctic is ,a single continent and not divided by a frozen strait as some explorers thought. Mr. Ellsworth expressed the opinion that the vast expanse of the Antarctic Ocean could foe charted and explored by the use of aeroplanes to carry supplies and sledge dogs to inland' bases. He expressed thanks to Admiral Bvrd and the directors and crew of the Discovery.

Dr. G. H. Grosvenor, presidont of the National Geographic Society, cited Mr. Ellsworth as a "world discoverer who exemplifies the finest traditions of science, modesty, resource and valour."

Mr. Roosevelt, in making the presentation, said: "The occasion is one of great pleasure to me because it is a reminder that the world still holds high adventure for those who have the spirit to seek it."

The medal is inscribed: "Heroic and extraordinary achievements in the Arctic, and the Antarctic."