"A FINAL DASH."

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12186, 30 March 1909, Page 4

"A FINAL DASH."

SUGGESTION FOR ANOTHER TRY

SOUTH

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, March 27. N .Lieut. Shackleton has not yet decided whether he will make further Antarctic explorations^ but the probabilities are that the next expedition in the direction of the South Pole will be led by him. For a final dash for the pole, however, more elaborate arrangements will be made. The .supporting parties will be bigger, the number of depots larger, and the appliances more complete. Lieut. Shackleton is naturally much disappointed at failing to reach the pole when only 97 miles off, but the plight of the small party was so desperate that it wps either death or return.

Those who know Lieut. Shackleton say that had he been alone he would have pushed on at all hazards. He informed" p. reporter that the matter of reaching the pole was by no means an impossibilitybut better equipment was required than what he was provided With.

From what he saw of the surroundine; country the situation of the pole would be somewhere on the high t>lateau discovered by his expedition. This plateau is very irregular and makes very hard travelling, and, further, from its altitude is swept by severe blizzards, which ar© <vneofthe worst difficulties encountered. " ■ .

Regarding; the Nimrbd, Lieut. Shnckleton, stated that she was to go back to England.