Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-23
AFTER NORDENSKJOLD
EXPEDITION GONE IN SEARCH OF
ANTARCTIC EXPLORER.
Argentine Republic Sends Gunboat
Uruguay Into Ice-Bound Realms
of the South.

The Department of State is in receipt of
a dispatch from Mr. Edward w Ames,
charge d'affaires ad interim of the United
States legation at Buenos Ayres IN which
he informs the department that the gun
boat Uruguay of the Argentine navy sailed
from Buenos Ayrec for the antarctic re-
gions on the Sth of October under orders to
find and relieve the Swedish exploring ex-
petition under Nordenskjold
Mr. Ames says that Nordenskjold's YES
sell the Antarctic, spent some time at Bue-
nos Ayres toward the close OF the year
1900 and the Argentine government, winch
had been contemplating the undertaklng Oh
an antarctic exploration, rendered all pos
sble assistance to the Swedish expedition,
supplying it with food and coal, ana de-
failing to it an ensign of the Argentine
navy named Sobral The Antarctic, MI
Ames states, left the Isla de los Estados
States Island) January 6, 1901, ana on
February Is disembarked five of the eXpe-
dition at Admiralty Cove, among them DC
inc DIR Nordenskiold and Ensign Sobral
On March g. 1902, =. the ship returned 10
Ushuaia and in November OF the same
wear set out again in search OF the eNp!or-
ers left at Admiralty Cove. Since That tme
no news has been received either Vi 'heii
or of the Antarctic.
Mr. Ames saws that Nordenskjold left in
structions that if no news or the return OF
the expedition to Malvinas was received by
April 80 1903 relief expedition should De
organized at once, and as April passed
without the receipt of such news relief eX-
petitions were organized simultaneously In
Sweden and France and afterward in Scot
land The Argentine Republic, keenly in
teres I'd in the expedition because of En-
sign SobraIs part in it, and because the
antarctic continent is only some 600 miles
distant from Ushuaia, determined to fit out
the Uruguay.
The gunboat will go first to New Years
officer and certain magnetic instruments
will be taken on board. From this point
she will go to Ushuaia to take on coal and
fresh provisions. There she will await the
that all may cooperate. If they do not ar
rive by the first week in November the
Uruguay wilIsail for Seymour Island (Gra-
hams Land, where a landing will be made
in whatever place shall seem most conven-
lent for communicating with Nordenskjold,
who is supposed to be at his winter quar-
tiers at the foot of Snow Hill or at the pro-
vision depot near Cape Seymour. If the
Swedish explorers are not found in either
of these places the Argentine expedition
will proceed in accordance with the direc-
tons which Nordenskjold will have left at
Snow Hill.
In case he or some of his party are
found at the winter quarters. but know
nothing of the Whereabouts of the Ant
arctic, they will be taken aboard the Uru-
quay and an effort will be made to find the
ship by following the itinerary laid out by
Capt. Larsen at Harberteo November .,
1902, before sailing southwark.
In the event OF navigating to the south OF
Seymour Island, reports of the progress OF
the expedition are to be left at Christian
sch and Robertson Island, Cape Stockyer
and Cape Foster. 1t is thought that it will
not be necessary % send an expedition in