Antarctic Exploration.
[Per Press Association. J • WELLINGTON, August 1. According to a communication from the Royal Geographical Society, the coat of the expedition to the Antarctic region referred to in jester jay's cables, would be £90,000 for two wooden vessels, and an equal sum for maintenance for three years. In the course of a discussion on the subject at the meeting of the Philosophical Society, Sir James Hector said it was a blot on our enterprise that so large a portion of the world's surface should remain unexplored. The exploration or the Antarctic region was an absolute necessity, because' it was from that region which sprung, to speak in broad terms, all the weather of the whole globe ; so that a proper knowledge of what was going on in the extreme south might possibly lead to more correct inferences of possible changes of weather in every part of the globe.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5325, 1 August 1895, Page 3
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