The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-09-13
THE END.
AROUND TIE SOUTHERN POLE.
What We KA'ow OF It-A Wall OF Ice 1850
Feet High.

The golden age of Antarctic dis.
covely arrived when Captain, after
ward Sir James, Ross was dispatched
from England m 1910 to fix the position
OF the South magnetic polc and any
other position he could discover on the
way there. Before Ross could reach
the scene of his labors other explorers.
English, French and American, were
busy f%orestalling him. Of these The
first was tho Englishman, B%allcny.
who, sailing in Enderby's ship. tho
Eliza Scott. discovered in 1859 the
Islands which bear his name, which
are almost under the Antarctic Circle,
and almos st due south from New Yea.
land. Ballcny couldnot land on the
islands, but he made sure of THERE exist.
cnce. and afterwards, sailing far to tho
westward he saw many more signs of
land, and suspected the existence of
much which he could not certainly
vouch for.
What Ralleny thought le saw was
probably mnclt what the French cxpe.
dition under Dumont d'Urvillc actually
did see in the following year, several
long lines tnf coast. which might be-
joined to n another, and might even
Il on to join Enderby Land in the
west, and if so might certainly be
parts of the Antarctic Continent that
DUrville was anxious to find. Not less
anxious was Wilkes, the leader of the
United States exploring expedition.
who, only u month af.erward the
Frenclman, arrived within a degree OF
two of the Antarctic Circle, to the
south of New Zealand, and, after sec
ing land where Isalleny bad certainly
seen it before. began to fancy that lie
saw it also where none had seen it be-
fore, and, unfortunately, where no one
has seen it since. For some DAYS, in.
deed, Wilkes doubted whether what he
beheld whore maountains or clouds.
objects which his crew watched
eagerly, to see If with the setting of
tho sun they would change their color.
But after running westward along the
edge of tbs pack for u few davs he
made sure that he o saw land, and
somewhat, inconscqucnt!y assumed it
for certain that what he had seen be-.
fore was land also.
The discovery of an Antarctic Cont.
nent was announced rs Il certainty; o
large land, with q barrier of ice before
1T and a range of mountains upon it,
was laid dHwn on the map; and n copy
of the map "a handed by the rash but
generous explorer to Ross, who left
Tasmania IN the autumn of the IN,
year to lock for the magnetic pole,
with the two ships Erebus and Terror.
which afterward bore Sir John Frank
lin to his fate ut the other end of the
world. Ross had SO little doubt that
the Antarctic continent was discovered
already that lie seems TO have been al.
most disappointed when his way to
the magnetic pole was barred by mn IN.
known H,nd.
Yet tlds land, which lay south of tho
seventeen parallel and eastward of
Bi!tcny's Islands, was the most, south.
crlp heretofore seen in the world, and
ON II arose mountains thousands Of feet
high, PLAN and mountain alike ROBBED
in stainless snow, except on the cliffs
by the share, where The black rock
came out. The coast! ran almost due
north and south, andsalong its eastern
face Ross advanced steadily till he had
beaten Cooks record and also Wedell's
ans gone further south than any be.
fore him. But he could find no land
ing placeton the main land, so choked
was every inlet with snow and ice;
only on q small island were the ad.
vcnturcrS able to touch Antarctic
earth, n few men among thousands of
screaming and biting penguins. Fresh
mountaids came constantly into view
as they moved southwark; at last one
i'll latit,aie Udegrees, over which what
cafI1 OIL n Gland ne n,,, $50. -llz
but wheti they came near they saw
th:a tho CLOUD was smoke. and gave the
aanle OF Mount Erebus to a aiant
Volcano higher than Etna, which
belches forth smoke and fire in n land
where all things arc frozen.
Before Mount Erebus lies Cape
Co2ier. and around Cape Cozier Ross
hoped to find a way to The westward.
90 as to reach tho magnetic pole by
the back of the new land he had
found. But as they approached they
saw stretching from Cape Golfer ..as
lar rs the eye could discern to the east
ward" u slow white line" the nature
OF which they did not understand. till
thcy came close enough to see tho
truth with their eyes. 1t was a wall
of ice $50 feet high, without a break
or slope. but one glittering, pcrpep-
'!icnlar steep, through which, as Ross
one might as ensily pass as
through tile cliffs of Dover. Along
this cleaning rampant Ross lan east.
ward for $50 miles. aud in the succeed
ing year, 1S42, for 200 more without
coming to Its end, on both of wli:ci, ue-
c;sions lie reached the high latitude ut
IS degrees son.h, which has neyor s;;nea
been approached BIZ any mau:-
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