TO SOUTH POLE
EXPLORER/ S PLANS. LONDON, Monday. The “News-Chronicle’ says that Mr. H. G. Watkins, who spent two years air surveying in Greenland, is leading ,an expedition to the Antarctic in October. He is proceeding to the Weddell bea and thence will try to cross the icefields via the Pole, to South Victoria Land. Speaking at the Antarctic Club’s reunion dinner, Commander Bernacchi said he expected Watkins would do good work. While the gathering was standing silent as a tribute to lost polar explorers, Shaelcleton’s voice was heard, on the gramophone, describing the work of the Nimrod expedition in 1908, naming three, survivors then present.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 January 1932, Page 5
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106TO SOUTH POLE Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 January 1932, Page 5
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