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and engine room being placed right
aft while the whole lower hold Is util-
ized as a coal bunker Captain Scott
commands the English expedition and
DF. Yon DryFaiski the German.
Il is expected that the commanders
Of the two expeditions VIII work to-
gether and follow q system suggested
By Sir Clements Markham. president 0i
the Royal Geographical Society. which
divides the region into four qnadrania
two on the Auatralaelan side and two
on the Cape Horn and Cape Of Good
Hope side. The arst quadrant from %
1es1ees east 10 fs0 degrees. ne names
Victoria: the second. from $50 degrees
70 % degrees west. In which the onig
known land is Peter Island. i called
the Ross Quadrant. the third. from %
degrees west ~ the meridian of Green
wlch. Is Weddell. and the fourth. ex-
tending from the Greenwich meridian
% 80 degrees east. about which the
least u known is called ihe Euderhy
Qaadfanf The English expedition
all conhnc its operations % the Vic
tora and Ross QuadraniA. The Ger
mans taking Wvddell and End@rby
The great unknown region comprised
IA these four quadrants covers millions
ci square miles. extending over prac-
tlcaiiy thirty degrees Of latitude. n
is continually modifying the atmos-
phere o. the whole southern hemi-
sphere. and yet We know almost moth
ing about its mefeor0logy Il is one
Of the most interesting volcanic re-
Rlons on the face of the GLOBE recent
volcanic rocks are present everywhere
and active volcanoes are quite numer-
Gus. and We are entirely ignoant Of
iis geology. lt e one Of the two great
world ccnters of magnetic pheaomena.
and yet We know scarcely anything
regarding the magnetic conditions
which prevail. not even with any GER
tainty where the southern magnetic
pole ia located Il j. By an odds the
frandrsi field Tor Zee study now exist
ent and yet no one has studied the Ice
there The mysterious ice barrier rIs-
Ing out Of $50 fathoma Of water and
stretching its perpendicula1 face Tor
hundreds of miles through The frozen
seas ike q gieantie vail-perhaps tho
sea face Of the greatest glacier IN the
world. perhaps the edge of an enor-
nous island Of ice anchored over the
pole. perhaps. indeed something stln
more remarkable than either 81 these
-ls certainly one oi che greatest nat.
urai curioslties in the world.
The region has a fauna aud dora Of
SIS own apparently very similar 70 that
Of the Arctic world. The few fossils
which have been picked up Indicate
that there waa 8 time when II was
crowded with plants and animals The I
lie of the Antarctic seas is very varied I
and numerous The tropical oceans /
which now separate TIE two poles I
seem % present en- enccfuai barrier
q any communication. and d q a mat I
Ter of much Interest % discover what I
fhs Arctic and Antarctic Identity of I
life forms is due 20. Various specaia- I
tions have been put forward. one OF I
these is that deep. cold currents tra-
verse fho warmer waters of the ocean
and form hidden rnssuavs a x were
- which ire tuo polar fsunas ars
connected Another throry Is fhat
there unr originally uniform fauna
ihrouetonf All he seas Of lhr globe
which a. now surviving only 81 the
poles having saea sur.reass II ths
ragncr REGIONS 81 ths ocean b. newly I
developed forms
The North poIs. chiefly for reonaph-