Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-08
An Expedition TO Explore the ley
Regions of the Antarctic is in
Preparation.
Investigations TO be Made Among the
Glaciers and Volcanoes Amid
Everlasting Shows.
I his Land is Supposed TO Have Been
Clothed With Vegetation and
Alive With Beasts.

LII SN, sSiNAoUSA A4V PRACTICAL dCtlOD was
then taken, but such action seems TO have /
more recently resulted from it. and, as
usual the aims. possibilities, details ani |
of the proposed expedition are
being widely discussed in the press.
The public interest thus aroused has |
teen rev veG on IT'S becoming known that |
the celebrated Arctic explorer. NordenSk- |
lold, Is to take command of this Antarctic /
His old friend and patron os |
previous polar enterprises, 3aran Oscar |
Dickson, mas promised to supply all the |
funds needed the undertaking over and |
above $4,000, which the Australian colo |
MES should contribute as an equivalent TO |
the possible benefits likely TO accrue from |
the exploration, and which believe they |
have agreed to do.
The So-called Antarctic Continent "
which we see so often upon maps and |
globes. has for a real outline only dis |
JOInted or dIScontlnuous coast line that
may be the ocean facing sides of an archi.
pelego connected with each other with
Il coment of ice, writes Frederick Schwatka
IN the New York World. or it NAV belong
to true continent buried beneath a huge
lce-cap that OverSpCeadS it to depth
unequalled in any other part of the world.
There is the coast called Victoria Land
of Sir James Clark Ross, British navy.
stretching rouphlv hatwaen +ba IeOFb
meridianS east and west Tbera i no
doubt as to the coast, as he landed nnnr il
couple of times but made no extended
land survey from If Admiral Wilkes
traced 70 degrees of longitude from about
the lOOth meridian east to the I7Oth east,
but this coast line seems to have had bad
luck, for subsequent explorers conld not
Vile followed a shore line from I36 5aoraas
to 40 degrees east longitude Enderbv's
and Kemp's Lands are about tSp 67th
parallel and between the 45th and 60,h
meridians east viiIa south of C.,,. H.
Is some indiStinctly mapped land. so there
Is no lack of material for Nordenskiold to
investigate if the expedition IS even fairly
successful.
| have already hinted at tba aror,,o,,.,
ice-can which covers The Aptaro,;n 800;
nent. and ALONGSIDE Of With aTar tho
great mer-de-giace Of Greeoiap5Nwbicb
the popular mind usnaliv rnncaiyas 70 no
the largest known .yI1ciai n,aSS i L,+
mere b0real bapateIIe CaIrnIatiors baSaJ
on known Glacial nbnnor,n,,, vow. h.
three and y miles For tLn lott ,f ~
center Of this treat sontb noisr CO.,
Nillte Inc terminal fronts nt tho do
bouchipp on fine coasts % the r,.,at So,,tb-
ern sea bv ice Cliff MANY bn,5roIs 81 f,at
in deDth rs seen NV A,tarot;n ,,(,,;,l,',a.
are thrust forward IT rsto 81 tnaaT '',,'
where hef = pep | OOO and ! 5O1 81 -.
The studv of Glacial nLys;cS ca,, ,,9orf.,-,
be pursued with "a much natnr;,i ~ La,,d
for the nur,osa and 70 s,,aI,
as in fha Enor,n ADD ,,,,I-,,,,, ~;
and ic. mount,in. of thoAt.,,l;, $500. -, ~
Nordenskinld is +nrhn;',l .a;o,,,s,,
original Investigation in inst sucb Snberas
of research. and his fnrihcominCr nvnod;.
ton ought TO lie nroliGc If v3ITaj7a raSyIts
therein.
Tho
ho ISL VI liio 70" VIII no uQnot'
~ t ',T,'i upon '"ol"i functions. Even
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Are :, ocnord;5 '9l.u l"FJ' smoke ana
t,aoora nh ..5.c ~ oui oio- tLLhe Scnooi
noSad ~ ho Ill - "tiS enough sup
80 pa ~ oS oGl'I up a. lluch NY Sho" ana
io Wv - ,ii'S igslon dS Vhey are bY Scorla,
go, s"u yolC'iic aSi9S' aiLhQugh at mrs.
g,onoe o,le coulo hattIy see now the two
to fnr5i uouS G;elleh,S co4iu possibly NIX
saline for V - pr gaileS lark moss,
EraL,Is ol T 'C.oiI l" I1alu III lis SulpS' the
;nI.nd az tG L saw Two volcanoes far
and 49, "niC ~ ne llaieu a''er MS vessels
,1onnt .,;,n tF pas Among Tue 4Ig9est
was IN 81 ' ne MDIt; MOUNT LrecuS
sides zporo oo,+o,' CA PH-2I, "I'nouSn us
o. 9 G.;H, T'ei0u WIN ice ana snow
Ie,uIiar faat',r ro 'oliiieii. I've On CheSe
built IN as contra e,, GJamG7i i are
other mountains uIicb rosIIjf 80 oia oll-
ton or erosion. They consist of debris
| piled up around vent. Lava and ashes
surround the crater in alternate LAYERS
But IN the south polar region tha snowfall
| must be taken into account. as well - the
| ash deposits and the lava flow. II NAV be
thought thai any volcanic election would
spe 'diiiy melt The snow upon which they
| tell, but this does not bv any means neces-
sarIIy follow. Volcanic ash, the most
widespread and most abundant material
ej'cted. falls comparatively cold, cakes and
then forms one Of the most effective non
conductors known. When such LAYER, a
few inches thick, is spread over the snow.
even molten lava NAV few over it without
melting the snow beneath. This NAV
seem to be incredible. but it has been OBJ
served to occur. In 1923 LyelI saw on the
TANKS of Etna a glacier sealed nm
under a crust of lava. Now. the Aptarc-
tic is the region of thick-ribbed ice All
expospd surfaces are Quickly covered with
snow Snow falls. ash falls and Iva flows
rnst have baan baanino, themselves ~,
around The craters diving nrknown .gee
What has bnen the resuIf2 x = These
interesting questions can be studied round
the south pole, and perhaps nowhere else
so well. -
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