ANTARCTIC WEATHER

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5609, 5 May 1919, Page 2

ANTARCTIC WEATHER

EXPLORING EXPEDITION. TRANSIT BY AEROPLANE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received May 4, 8 p.m,) LONDON, May 3. Mr John L. Cope, who accompanied the 1914-17 Antarctic expedition—he was surgeon biologist to the Ross Sea party, and was a member of the party left on the great ice barrier for the purpose of laying depots alter the Aurora broke her moorings—has ..bartered the famous ship Terra Nova, and expects to be absent six years, maintaining wireless communication. '.The chief objects of the expedition are to a seer tain the position and extent of mineralogical and other economically valuable deposits known to exist in the Antaictic, with a view to their development as a source of national wealth, to obtain further evidence as to the- distribution and migration of whales, with a view to furnishing British industry. It ,is intended to investigate meteorological and magnetic conditions of tho Ross Sea a tea and Gape, and in E'ndorhorry Land in connection with their influence on Australasia and South Africa respectively. That such a result will be 0 * great value has been already proved ly the Argentine Station, South Orkneys and the Commonwealth Station at Maquarie Island. The expedition takes an aeropriuie to facilitate survey of the interior of the continent,, and it is erfm contemplated to make a flight to the South Pole.