POLAR EXPLORATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 78, 9 April 1913, Page 2

POLAR EXPLORATION.

THE WORK OF THE PARTY

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] '[United Press Association.] (Received 9.20 a.m.) Sydney, April 9. The wireless station at Adelie Land is now working splendidly. Dr Mawson is in regular communication with the Pennant Hills Station. A long message to date gives details of the party’s doings, and mentions that they are assailed nightly by wireless signals from far and wide, including some from the Government stations in New Zealand. Dr. Mawson states that the expedition’s work has proved that the Antarctic Continent lies much farther south than Wilke’s American expedition mapped it. The winter ws fairly upon them, and the last penguin had departed. A terrific hurricane was being experienced. The party was frequently setting bottles adrift to ascertain the direction of the ocean currents.

Dr. Mawson hopes the ship will pick up the Macquarie party, arriving in Adelie Land about December 10th. He was particularly anxious for a competent physicist to join the Aurora equipped, with a pendulum apparatus to determine the figure of the earth. THE SCH.ROEDERSTRAXZ EXPEDITION. Christiania, April 8. Four members of the Schroederstranz expedition have reached Advent Bay. They report two of the others are in safe quarters with,the Swedish survey expedition at Treurenhurg Bay. The aviator ami the cook were dead. Schrocderstranz left the ship in August on a sledge expedition and had not returned.