Arizona republican., 1912-03-28
THE EARTH'S TWO POLES.
How Capt. Amundsen's Trip Completes
 Our Knowledge of Globe.

The earliest discovery of the north or south pole is the one aspect of Arc tic discovery which attracts anu in tcrests the public, says the Philajei- phia Record.
 But each polar expedition has us larger 1lace in extending the field oi geographical knowledge. Captain Amundsen's exhibition establishes the fact. already known in general terms, that while the north pole is ocean. the south pole is a mass of land large enough to constitute small continent if if were in more favorable region and more accessible.
 The nor.h pole represents part of the low waste of marsh ianl and water which fills northern Siberia, extends over the shadows to the north of it, deepening as it goes and gradually making the broad shallow basin whose shores are tine northern coast of Si- bcra ana the northern coaS; of C21 ada half fl it Sprinkled with iSialdS of To-. levyl and without mountains urtiI the plateau of nOrthcrH Green land is reached and the volcanic area which gives the world Iceland, SpitZ- bergen and the mountains Of Lapland and \orWav The sea between theS" low coast is. ike them. of no great depth. swept by the great current which passes through BehrinG straits anI flows down Baffin's bay and along the east coast of Greenland, shallow stretch of strange waters, most of which has not been explored.
 The south pole. on the other hand. is q land area consi lcrably larger than Australia. ice bcgirt. a great plateau whose surface is 10000 to 11.0OO feet high. with mountain ranges crossing it. All this is dou'.lcss part of that great upturn whiC' asses down the Andes. crosses "Ar .'tica. the Ant arctic continent an, goes directly on along a great circle. up the east Asian coast bv way of Sumatra in the great system of volcanic action pcrpctually breaking into active volcanoes which had liftci Bornco. the Philippine islands. Japan and extreme east Si- beria.
 These mountains auI volcanoes are part of q great Assure in the carth'S crust. which returns into itself by way of the antarctic continent. It starts in the volcanoes of the AIeutian islands and Alaska. coming down in vast world curve along our eastern coast and the Andes. reappcaring in Antarc- tica. finding it's way up the islands that fringe the east coast of Asia and returning to it's original beginning. where our far-flung flag looks out from the last of the Aleutian islands. This greag girde of fire. dotted with volcanoes. rings about the Pacific.
 The north pole is. on the other hand. under waters which are part of the At lantic ocean. whose shores either in south or north Atlantic areas have few volcanoes. display in general the low sloping line of our own coast and that of South America. wath d large part of west Africa, q type represented in the northern coasts of both America and Siberia.
 The great return and result of Cap tain Amundsens trip. therefore. is that it completes our general knowledge Of the globe and leaves us aware that its two oceans and the continents between them are themselves part of a great world building which rings one ocean and frnges two continental masses with volcanoes and leaves the other ocean and the continental masses ringing if without this seismic dis turbance, except at certain isolated points.