, 1913-07-12
ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.
Experiences On A Moving Glacier,

Experiences On A Moving Glacier.
Reuters Agency has received the first ac-
count to reNch TINS country OF the export
enceS Of Mr., Frank Wild and his seven com
plnious, who, forming the second base OF DR..
MaWson's Antarctic expedition, elected to be
landed on a moving Antarctic glacier rather
than return to Australia. A year later they
were rescued with great difficulty. The chief
result of their exploration was the discovery
Of q great tract Of land with $50 miles OF
coast line, probably extending to the Pole
itself, which has been named Qpeen Mary's
LanI.
Speaking of his experieLces, Nh. Wild
said So
We left Mawson at his base IN Adele Land
on January 10 of last year with orders to
form Il second base on Sabrina Land or Knox
Land. The former we soon ascertalncd did
not exist. and impenetruhle pack prevented
us from getting within 80 miles Of Knox
Land. On February II we sighted Il glacier,
which had probably been mistaken by Wilkes
tor Termination Land, and on the 18th found
a landing. This being Shack.eton's birth
day we named it Shackleton Glacier. 1t
looked an impossible spot. 1t was clearIv a
moving glacier and its terrible cliffs 1907
high were badly broken.
The purity, after landing stores on the
glacier, made pi separations for u sledging
tour, bat were detained 10y bad weather -
in the meantime, all the sen ice blew away,
leaving us with a perpendicular glacier edge
up which 1T Wls impossible for penguins OF
seals to reach, and for five months VIZ had to
depend entirely or timed foods. AS soon
as the weather permitted Il party of six left
the hut to lay cut a depot on land which we
could see to the south II miles distant from
our glacier. Kennedy md Watson were left
at the base. Although in q direct line the
land lay II miles off, our first Journey to it
was 33 miles in length. After eight days
tra Ielling we reached a spot 35 miles inland
at an altitude of 2,200ft. Crevasses abound
ed, and from March Fl for a period Of niue
days we we've kept in camp by the same biz
Yard which proved fatal to Scott and his gal
LIANT companions, We soon found it impos-
sible to so on, and turned back for home.
In August we again made preparations for
sledging, one party Of three going eastward
and another to the west. The latter sur
veyed all the coast line to the point reached
by the German expedition of 1902. The
Western party did most Of its travelling on
land at an altitude of two to three thousand
feet. At one trip it did $40 miles at that
altitude. Ih1S party discovered the largest
emperor penguin rookery ever recorded.
This was on an island 65 miles west of our
glacier but, and here were congregated some
1000 young emperor birds in addition to in-
Vulnerable ordinary penguins. The eastern
party surveyed as far rs 10l east longitude
and went inland for 80 miles, reaching an al
titude Of 4,500ft.
On Christmas Day we formally took pos
session of Queen Mary's land, and hoisted
the Union Jack. I called my companions
together to witness the act, as we took the
land in the name Of the Australian expedi-
ton for King George V. The land is a con-
tinuation of King Edward VII. plateau, has
a coast line of $50 miles, and ascends gra-
dually probably to the Pole itself.-I6jd.