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Year Will Feature Work At South Pole

By C. L. BOLTZ

London, May 1

This year there starts the most remarkable international scientific co-operation of modern times the International Geophysical Year. All the leading nations of Europe and Asia and America are taking part. A very great deal of the scientific work will be done in the Antarctic, already sprinkled on the seaward edge with the advance parties with" their huts and tracked vehicles and small aircraft and the like.

Anyone who looks at a map of the Antarctic surely cannot fail to notice one outstanding thing about the names he sees they are nearly all English: The Ross Sea, the Weddell Sea, Coats Land, Enderby Land, Graham Land, Mount Markham, Mount Longstaff. This simply means that British sailors and sealers and explorers have been connected with Antarctic investigations for more than 260 years. Edmund Halley, the famous astronomer, actually reached the Antarctic pack-lee-though he was not really very far south-in the south Atlantic in the year 1700. Incidentally, he was doing magnetic investigations, which are still going on two and a half centuries later.

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Proposal to change

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a young

was botanist

to

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The men are not lost for months

or

There

[ remarkable | expedition, Thla Ross expedition] there are tracked vehicles and personal continuity #bout a is now famous.

aircraft and above all, radio. large part of British Antarctic Ross reached a latitude of 78 Communication has altered the exploration. A

far-off degrees, the the

furthest south up whole concept of exploration, beginning of it all was James to

the amount 3 | 4. then, and Clark Rom in 1840, With Boss scientiße observation coupled

or years; they are in touch with had with man who

great hardships ฮวง other bases and ships and with used as a surgeon but was

dangern made the expedition Britain, concerned with botany: outstanding for all time. Hooker For intensive sclentine

himself made

д wealth

of investigation there

the are observations; he had doubled activities of all the nations part in the International Lime, and went on

expedition is run by the Royal Society, whose base has already boen set up on the shore the

of Weddell Sca. For many months scientists there will-as der 45 their working day is concerned with entirely occupied

observations and

the Ross expedition, This young wan Ji to bec

very famous as

Sir I short

h Dalton Hooker, later the Nora of Antaretlen in a veryhysical Year. The British Joseph looked. He lived assemble un impressive

long very when he

died in 19 ninety-four years old. By this ume he had hud close continet

Captain: Robert

time Indeed. and of data.

1011 be Was

Scott

Falcon

Other Nations

him captive balloons for griling | and by 1874 the observers high enough to

over the great Antarctica.

was

to

MAKS

who at Sir Joseph Many nations were now kee-be

trail to the far south, scienttie Hooker's suggestion took with on the

OFSL

steam-measurements, ship was in action in Antarctica: 300

It

Taken alone these measure- the Challenger ice barrier ol

Expeditions

would be important from ments followed Germany and Norway-on one Used in conjunction with those Arat-ever landing made by the scientists of all the of which the on the insin Anturelle continent other nations present they will was made from Belgium--the help to provide data that no

-explorer-scientist of the mate of the ship being n Norwegian, Roald from

Sweden and Antarctic exploration speeding up.

Had there been a Homer of the time we should have learned

of the strange third world, the great South Land, where tear- some things were to be found,

In

Cook's Trip

search

of t Inny

who

Amundo's | could have dreamt of.

Britain.

WRS

con-

the

1. William Charles (iomer-vidence of the third world. He physics of Antarctica.

The expeditions were expeditions Wire organised. ensned with navigation und But they falled to And R. and af general discovery, and detalled famous and

British scientific Investigation of eccentric hydrographer criticised harshly living thing, the fossiilsed life,

sailer u young British

What the geology and meteorology and returned to Britain without

Tue ;

1894 did Norwegian who had landed in 1

the same four years later and with his party spent o year on land,

sall of 515A The Penk, Hong kong, hereby give notice that in consequence of change of ownership of the Ship, I have applied to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation under Section 47 of the

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was Captain James Cook, and he was sent

with off again explicit orilers to solve The problem,

the

This sort of exploration on What he did then marked the land was clearly to be the next est important step in authentic stage, which brings me to the Antarctic exploration. for first expedition by Captain Captain Cook sailed right round Scott, who consulted Sir Joseph Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the world at a high latitude, Hooker. who had been with burrier ice, Ross. Scolt in 1901 established In respect of the Steamship skirting

the u crossing

base от the Antarctic Circle only 10 be continent and explored it as far back to warmer regions south an 82 degrees of latitude, Gross by lee and unle But he did the furthest up to then.

all right round, and

from whut he convinced observed that if there was a third world it was ttle more than an ice-bound waste,

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a few years later, the race to for permission to change her Antaroltea that kilkd a legend reach the actual South Pole: Scott did name to "MALAYA FIR" and took place from 1772 to 1774. Amundsen beat him.

furthest south Cook reach it but he was just too late to have her registered in the reached was intitude 71 degrees and so failed to set a dramatic now name at the Port of 10 minutes south. His seal on the long record of

circumnavigation of

of the

South British Antarcile exploration. Polar continent inspired many With Scott's tragic death on the further

expeditions, some big, way back the historical and Te small,

It was on a small herole period of such exploration excursion by a ship hunting for really came to an end.

The link between ป seals that land was discovered and named the South Shetlands, historical period today was provided by Shackleton. He had Three Alive

the been with Scott on expedition of 1901, and became leader himself. The A big expedition organised by next task, he thought, was to Hussia repeated Cook's eir- cross the 3,000 or so kilometres cumnavigation and supplement of the Antarctic continent from ex- one side to the other, taking in pedition that has aroused the the South Pole on the way, and admiration of all navigatie uitable

It

solve the problem, by was the flrat of

Investigation, the

nineteenth whether it was one land-mass expeditions of

or several joined together by century, James Weddell followed by in 1823 and reached further fee. But Shackleton died in south than anyone before, So 1922 before he could try. Now, that the

he in 1957, Dr Fuchs and navigable se04

with their NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES penetrated is today called the Edmund Hillary,

Weddel! Sca. And then came a parties, are to try to do just muccession of explorations by what Shackleton had in mind..

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One of these expeditions was This is the chief aim of the commanded by John Biscoe, and Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic the the

tale of his

determined Expedition led by Dr Fuchs, voyaging in much intense cold Already his shore base has been that only three of his crew were set up on the Allanile side, and still able to stand, and only another established

the three remained alive on his opposite side of the continent companion ship, is an epic that This, opposite New Zealand, so deserves a

Edmund separate telling to speak, wil be Sir Biscoo received the

Dr. Fuchs has Societies also travelled inland to set up of the Geographical metals Hillary's base.

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FOR 'EXTINCT TASMANIAN TIGER

are

By JOHN HANTKEN

Hobart, May 1. Scientists, naturalists and bushmen preparing for a hunt which they hope will result in the capture alive of what has been described as "the rarest mammal in the world"--the Tas- manian "tiger."

The last of the Tasmanian tigers in captivity died. in the Hobart Zoo in 1933, and all offorts to replace it have so far failed. Until a few years ago, naturallsta asserted with some confidence that the animal was extinct and scoffed at isolated reports that the beast had been sighted.

will include the Director of the

But Interest in the strange, veteran bushman, who is a mem- almost legendary animal revived | ber of the Animals and Birds here early this year when 02 Protection Board. The party atriing plot photographed what may have been a tiger from his Hobart Museum, Dr WJ helicopter on lonely Birthday Bryden, andi a member of Bench on the wild west coastline

University's Zoology of Tasmania, Harbour.

near Macquarie manian, or EJ. Guller. The

bushmen, who will lead the ex-

The animal in his photograph | pedition to the wild, unexplored has not been positively ident-

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ded as that of the tiger, which

known

to scientists da thylacinus cyanocephalus, and has also been described as marsupial wolt

The tiger, which is shy with man but kills sheep and lamba, measures up to eight foot from

to nose-tip tall when fully grown. It has a grizzled, fawny-

a thick grey, striped hide with based tall He that of a kangaroo.

Carries Young

the

Wit

country of Tasmania's coast, will be Sergeant GJ. Hnglon, of the Tasmanian Police Force, and Mr JK, Meldrum, a member of the Animals and Birds Protection Board.

Expedition

This Ove-man expedition will travel by Jeep as far as possible towards the Huon River Sources, in south-western Tasmania, and will then head pack horses into densely timbered and mountainous terrain where they believe that the tigers may still be found.

the

The description of marsupial wolf originates in the fact that

The largest of all known ficat:- the female carries her young, eating marsupials, the Tosman- usually a litter of four, in an

lan tiger once had a price of abdominal pouch which opens £A10 on ite head for sheep to the rear

killing. and protects

Fanners then hunted young 19 the beast moves until the animal was rarely seen, through the wild

Tasmanian Now, it is

but protected, bush. It has a thick wolf-like naturaliste say that if it not head, which is disproportionately already extinct, it has little Large,

chance of survival.

names

Brussels, Moy 1,

The A rubber factory was partly

United Nations Inter- If the expedition soon to leave destroyed by a violent blaze at national office for the Protec-here, does succeed in capturing

of Nature Lanaken today, causing damage | tion

the a specimen, it will restore estimated at roughly 25 million Tasmanian Tiger as one of the freedom after it has been studied Belgian francs (about £200,000 world's 14 vanishing animals. It and photographed. It will not be sterling).

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in of kept

becauso capitvity "particular interest."

Tasmanian Government

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