Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-08-20
EXPLORER WILKES
INDICATED BY
EXPEDITION
American Naval Officers Dis.
credited Discovery of Ant
arctic Continent Substanti-
ated by Mawson Party.

ated by Mawson Party.
New York. Aug Ia More than one
explorer has had the experience ~
doing good aud faithful work. rlsking
his iife 60 get a. the truth and then
going homo 90 md that tho world
does not believe W. his discover IS.
Perhaps the most conspicuous case
Of the Kind H. that Of Lieutenant
Charles wilkes. the American naval
officer who Hryputy.two years aga
sailed for thirteen hundred miles
along the coast OF Antarctic and skirt
cd the shores that la their windings
are estimated 90 bee 1850 miles long
wilkes believed he had found "a
continent His discovery was doubted
or denied by gcoErapncrs. on his
chart be extended along this coast
TIE name "Tho Antarctic Continent
ana later his oouutrymcn gave tu tao
shore line he revealed the name oil
Wilkes Land This coast was not is-
itcd again an january and FoorlBry
OF this year. when u WAS pr h"od That
Wires had told the .uth.
British Charts Omitted wilkes Land.
wilkes. his memory and his work
have been covered with contumcly ~
many supposed geographical aIthori-
ties. CHIEFLY In Great Britain. Ills cx-
ploratious have been hrushc ASH IN
England as not worthy of 'relonce
ON many British maps and ,h1r,s the
Work ne did has not been recorded.
I Captain scott. reporting % his INST
expedition In 1908, declare thnt he
h1d sailed over Wilkes Land and add
ed:
] Thus once and for an We have def
nitely disposed Of wilkes Land"
These are only few examples of
| the injustice done Co wilkes for two
generations. II IL pieasanter 10 turn
TO tho magnificent work he did and
the complete Verincatiun OF II which
/ the Australasian Antarctic expedition
has Just supplied.
\ i.Ecars' Cruise.
lie sailed ON August 1S.1S3S, and
on June 10. 1st2, his stormswcpt yes
sells were home again, having circum-
noyigatcd the world II was one OF
the great exploring expeditions Tho
entire report on the work has nc.sr
been published but tho ninstecn large
volumes issued hy the government M
cludc all 81 the Antarctic work Nhich
was bv far the most distinctive tea
turo uf the expedition, though lnly -
small part ~ th, total results.
The government iustruotcl wilkes
to reach 10 possible high latitude To-
the south OF South America but en-
Joined him not tu pass tut winter
there. Tuo polar cruises In inct
wore Go oc short summer Journeys
and 40 preparation was mao for pen
etruung the pack lee or wiuteTing Ia
"a h.Fh latitude
wilkes sailed south from Tio'ra del
Fu,go and fixed the position of ,he
northeast extremity of Palm r. Land.
4 Continent Il Found.
Ten months later the expedition
sailed into sydney Hhrbuf. Australia
, and began 90 prepare for e second
/ Antarctic expedition.
Il was on this cruise thar W ke'
made his grcat discovery ot the Ant
arctic continent The undertai M
was FUN ~ perl, In these taNs, vh'r
polar exploration has been reduced "a
~
the powerful ally OF the explorer ant
every contingency lis fully provided
FOR. such "a dash ~ WilkHs Gto in'
unknown would be- regarded 80 th'
height ~ folly
ON January 10. 1stU, wilkes sight
ed IN, hrst land aud named IL Ring
Colds Knoll He was always pnlEs
taking. always striving for accuracy
\ stormy voyage.
wilkes was much impeded by
storms, fog and ice. wilkes wa
sometimes driven as much as siNu
miles from the coast and u was "a
that distance that he discovered hi
appearance of land which he calle'
Termination Land ana which IN
charts have always marked with al
Interrogation point
Milkc- H. Nindicated
The MaWsou Austrulusiun cSpedi
ton has proved. over distance 4"
, moro or less twelve hundred miles
Z, tne existence OF wilkes Land, whicl
. has been disputed during the last sew
entv-two years and has set up sta
tiong al the west and almost az th
east end OF a. Doctor Nawson ha
thus done much 20 supror the theor
%, of there being one Contlnonlhl mas
round about the south Pole.
wilkes found that coast line an
mapped il. hut he made one mistake
as Mawson has discovered Nearly al
OF his coast line is shown ON his chaI
little further north than u ought &
be. His general position throughou
his survey was e little nearer IN
south pole than ne thought it was
:. The blunder was IL very nature
2 one and the best men OF wilkes tim
3 would have been likely to make J.
!: wilkes. scientific Instruments ior He
termlning position were not 80 a2cui
ate as those made now, and further