Show ANTARCTIC EXPLORATIONS EXPLORER BORCHGREVINCK REPORTS HIS JOURNEYMen JOURNEY-Men Suffered Intenselyfrom the Extreme Ex-treme Cold An Island Discovered and Named Duke of York i San Francisco July 27The report of Explorer Borchgrevlnck who asSent as-sent to the Antarctic in the interest of science In the auxiliary screw bark Southern Cross has been received here Tn his report the explorer says that Ice was first encountered on December De-cember 30 ThUS and that two weeks later on January 14th land was first sighted It proved to be Balleney island isl-and but near approach was Impossible owing to the Ice For weeks the vessel was hemmed in the pack and preparations for a sledge journey to Victoria land were being perfected when the pressure slackened a little The Southern Cross had been hemmed in for forty eight days and on the night of February Febru-ary 17th dropped anchor In Robertson bay Stores were landed on South Victoria Vic-toria land On the 23rd of January a severe southeast gale occurrjty Jt t lasted for fortyeight hours and two anchors were lost The report states that but for the heroic work of the men the vessel ves-sel would have been lost On March 1st the Union Jack was hoisted on Victoria Vic-toria land and on March 2nd the Southern Cross commanded by Cape Jensen sailed for New Zealand leaving leav-ing Borchgrevlnck a party of ten at the settlement of Capt Andre 2500 miles south of Australia The party remained in the vicinity of Adore f6r some months experiencing great hardships hard-ships and suffering Intensely from the extreme cold On June 2Cth an attempt wa made to reach the coast land to the west of Robertsons bay where the camp was pitched with the thermometer registering register-ing 10 dog below zero An island vas discovered and named Duke of York Island On this Journey the lowest temperature registered was experienced experi-enced namely 62 degrees below zero Subsequent expeditions from Rob ertsons bay were dispatched during August and September with the result that valuable collections were obtained and observations taken whenever opportunity op-portunity offered The land toward the southwest of Duke of York Island In the Admiralty range was visited and named Gelkic island owing to its geological Interest Duke of York island Itself was found to be cut through from east to west by broad deep quarts reefs It may here suffice to say remarks re-marks Mr Borchgrevlnck that minerals min-erals of great value occur In this Vicinity Vi-cinity and that undoubtedly in time to come science will recede that support sup-port from commerce which the progress of civilization justifies and that the future Antarctic exploration will never be In want of financial support Officially 1 took possession of Duke of York Island for Sir George Newnes Gcikie land which we visited on several sev-eral occasions is also rich in minerals miner-als |