Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-03

animal life covered the floors. of the
Antarctic seas was established
Other discovers We're. c. A. Larsen,
4 1924 discovered King oscar II Land:
Leonard Kristensen, 1S94-95 New Yea
| land, discovered liehen, the first evil
/ denee of terrestrial plant life obtained
within the Antarctic Circle; Adrien De
/ Gerlaehe, 1889, Belgium. scientific,
/ Photographic and collecting natural
/ history specimens, were caught in the
| ice and were the first explorers to pass
| the winter within the Antarctic Circle;
| Adalbert Kreeh 1899, German scien-
| tific expedition. and located BouVet Is
| land. lost for 90 years; G. T.. Borehgre-
Wink, 1899 1860, Erich Won Drygalski.
| l902-03, located Kaiser Wilhelm III
/ Land. and Otto Nordenskold, swedish,
| 1902 03 Captain r.. F. Scott, 1902 -O4,
! first expedition. with Lieutenant +. n.
| Shaeketou; W. s. Bruce, Scotland,
| 1903-G4, discovered Coast Land; Jean
Charcot, France, 1903-o5; T.. II. Shack
! leten, 1908 09.
DR.. Douglas Mawson, Australia. 1911;
Lieutenant Shirhase, Japan; Lieutenant
Wiliam Filchner, German army, and
ROAD Amundsen and Captain Scott
were all in the Antarctic in 1911 and
1912.
Lieutenant Shackleton, January g.,
1909, set d record in Antarctic explora-
ton, in latitude SO degrees % minutes
south, longitude 1862 degrees east. or Ill
miles from the South Pole. He collected
also much valuable scientific data as
cended Mount Erebus, 1890 feet high
I ,g Ettt n the fret time, dis
covered several new mountain, .gapges
and more than 100 new mountain peaks.
He gained his first experience III Ant
arctic work with Captain Scott in the
expedition of the Discovery, and his
work brought him the title Of Sir Ern-
est Shaekleton.
Roald Amundsen, the discover of the
South Pole. who had Captain Scott as
his closest rival in the attempt to get
there first, made his expedition to the
Antarctic in 1911, on the Fran, the
same ship in which Or. Fridtjef Nan
sen. the Norwegian explorer. achieved
his "farthest north" in 1895. The his
tory of his work We're so recent that
details of his remarka bic effort are still
fresh in the public mind.
They came home at a rate of 90 kilO-
meters a day Amundsen explained by
unusually favorable weather" Much
OF his good fortune and SCOTS tragedy
may 10 written in terms of weather.
and mis- usually favorable return wealth
er must be contrasted With SCOTS re-
Nnn Wcather-not one entirely fine day
in all ana then the final storm. The
weather contrast holds from the start.
Take the outward passage from So de-
crces to 50. Each explorer made a rec
ord of that distance Scott wrote:
Tho weather grew worse, some
storms were frequent, the sky continu-
ally overcast, and land very rarely yisi-
BE. Under these circumstances it was
most difficult to keep a straight course
and maintain steady marches"
Amundsen, who crossed the same lat
itude about month earlier, reports:
The trip from SO degrees to 90 de-
grecs became a pleasure trip-excellent
ground, fine sledging and an even tenn
perature. Everything went like a
dance"
The blizzard which made SCOTS adj
vance 50 difficult at this point was pro-
badly the same storm which afflicted
Ambundsen at. the same time, while
Ec was passing from IS to Sc degrees.
A stop of four days was forced by a
blizzard. and then, tired of this" as
he said in his own account, he and his
men pushed on in a furious blizzard.
through drifting snow 50 dense that
there was no seeing ahead. Badly froz-
en- faces paid the penalty for the dis
lance covered i'll the gale of November
81 It was not until the 18th that the sun
shone again and the wind died down.
Seaman Evans of the Scott party
died on February Il, at the foot of
Beardmore glacier. Some time before
he had suffered a brain conclusion
while travelling over rough ice-"fright-
fully rough ice Scott called it, traV
ersed when the weather was unspeak
able. Amundsen experienced rough
ice too. Roughest of all was the "Dev-
~ glacier" with its lower part much
broken ana dangerous. The snow
bridges very often burst There were
holes and creyices without number.
Then came the frozen sea and the most
unpleasant stretch of ALL Amundsen
called that stretch the Devils Dancing
Place" 1t sounded hollow. as though
they we're walking on empty barrels,
ana there a man and dog fell
through Houston Post