LURE OF FROZEN SOUTH.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 17

LURE OF FROZEN SOUTH.

Next Voyage Of Discovery. SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON'S PLANS. (United Pren Association—By Eteoirli Talagraph—Copyright.) (Received March 1, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 23. Sir Douglas Mawson, discussing the Expedition arrangements, said he was taking over the Discovery, which was at present in West India dock nearing completion. Provided there was 110 unforeseen delay, she should 1 e in readiness to start late in tho autumn. The Discovery would shortly be taken over by Captain Davis, who would go to Australia in the summer. Sir Douglas Mawson himself would go to Australia by mail steamer. Ho said lie was already inundated with requests from all parts of the world to join the Expedition. “My own opinion is that visions of a great Polar Continent, affording facilities for human life, on a big scale, will never oome true,” said Sir Douglas Mawson, “but there is no reason why small communities should not find life there tolerable, and in some respects even advantageous. Although women could not reasonably participate in polar exploration, there is no reason why they could not endure settlement life in the Antarctic regions.” MORE POLAR FLIGHTS. PLANS OF SIR HUBERT WILKINS (United Press Association—By Eleitrli Telegraph—Copyright.) NE\V YORK, February 27. A message from Lima, Peru, states that Sir Hubert Wilkins passed through there to-day en route for New York, aboard the steamship Ebjre. He indicated that he had made plans for an Arctic Polar exploration during this summer in a submarine, or would possibly make a North Polar trip with the Graf Zeppelin before returning to Antarctica in September. He also intimated that he had planned the establishment of meteorological stations on the South Polar Continent, with a ten year programme of weather forecasting for all nations in the Southern Hemisphere.