ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 12, 1 September 1900, Page 962

ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

The dangers encountered in Arctic explorations are well-known. Mr Borchgreyink, in a paper read before the Royal Geographical Society on the results of Sir Greorge Newnes' Antarctic expedition, gave a graphic description of a very narrow escape from death he and Captan Jensen had. They had landed just under Mount Terror to collect specimens. A hideous roar was the first warning they received, and looking up they realized that a glacier close by was giving birth to an iceberg, as he expressed it. The huge mass was shot into the sea, causing a wall of water to rise an incredible height. They rushed up the cliffs, but were overtaken as they clung to a perpendicular wall of rock. The wave, loaded with splinters of ice, struck them both, and rose many feet above their heads, but with incredible exertions they managed to cling to the rock. Several other waves of decreasing force followed, but they retained their hold. In this expedition Mr Borchgrevink, with Lieutenant Colbeck and a Mnn named Savio, succeeded in reaching 78° 50', the furthest point South yet trodden by man.