THE ANTARCTIC

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3928, 19 July 1937, Page 2

THE ANTARCTIC

“The healthiest climate in the world is to be found in the Antarctic. Some day parts of this huge continent, equal in area to Australia and Europe, probably Whaling Bay and Princess Elizabeth Land, will be the scene of great tourist activity. In | summer the sun shines 24 hours of the day, and for three months in the year there is never a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind. Cold germs do not exist.” Dr. Wilson Ingram, a member of the two expeditions to the Antarctic led by Sir Douglas Mawson, painted a glowing picture of the Antarctic in these terms to members of the Kosciusko Snow Revellers’ Club, who held their inaugural dinner at Torii Cafe, George Street, Sydney. Mentally and physically, show sports, he said, were the best of all sports. “If the call came again,” he added, “I should like to go back south. An American reporter once told me that polar explorers reminded 'him of a famous American duck which flies backwards. ‘lt does not care two hoots where it is going,’ the reporter said, ‘but it likes to know where it has been.’ ”