Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition

Abstract

(1) Explorations and Results. THE anxiety occasioned by the delay in the return of Lieut. Shackleton's expedition has been relieved by its safe arrival and the news of its supreme success. A cable published in the Daily Mail of March 24 records the magnificent exploits of the expedition, and though there are occasional obvious verbal inaccuracies in regard to some technical points, the report makes clear the main outlines of its great achievements. They unquestionably place it in the front rank of Polar expeditions. Its two most striking achievements were the sledge journeys by which Lieut. Shackleton reached within one hundred geographical miles of the South Pole, and discovered the nature of the very centre of the South Polar region, and by which Prof. David gained the magnetic south pole, and rendered almost certain the continuity of South Victoria Land and Wilkes Land.