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Show TO AGAIN DARE ANTARCTIC TERRORS Emlnont Polar Explorers Are Planning Expedition of Five Years' Duration. LONDON, April 11. It has been learned horo that the woll-known polar explorer, Dr. Nordenskjold, Admiral Polandor and Gunar Anderson, aro flauning an expedition to tho Antarc-ic, Antarc-ic, which will cover about tho samo ground as the British Stackhouse party of 1914. Dofinito plnns have not yet been made, but it is probable that the expedition will laud an observation pnrtv on the oust coast of Grahams Land. Thi3 parti' will bo composed of six men and will remain thoro for five jf SFoBtor Stackhouse. loader of tho British 1014 party, states that ono of tho objects of the Swedish oxpodition will be tho study of whalos, whoso habits aro still unknown, uotwithstand' ing that these mammals havo boon hunted for years. Whatovor friction thoro may bo between the Shackloton and Austrian' expeditions, thoro will bo nothing buC amitv between tho Stnck-houso Stnck-houso and Swedish parties. Stack-house Stack-house has alrond' been in communication communica-tion with Dr. Nordenskjold, giving him particulars of tho British expedition as far ns they concorn Grahams Land, and tho Swedish leader has promised to ro-ciprocate ro-ciprocate as soon as his plans aro coin- ,lDr Nordenskjold 'b last oxpodition to tho polar regions, in 1903, caiuo to grief when his ship the Antarctic was crushed in the ice off Grnhams Land and tho crew had to mako ita way north, being ultimately piokod np by an Argentine vessel. - J |