Show IN I ANTARCTIC Ill s Time Tho return of tho the exploring e steamer Discovery ends the time series of explorations tot for scientific purposes os In those regions which com coin commenced In 1901 by expeditions from England Germany and mud 13 By y special arrangement the tho territory to tobo ho bo covered t was WIlS divided between the three Tho rho Swedish steamer perished In hr the Ito gulf guilt of If Erebus In n February 1001 sinking lInking with whit nil all her scientific Instruments meats ments The Tho crow and the members of the expedition managed to live II on seals until they rescued In III November last IAal The German expedition returned to Kiel Nov 26 36 1903 after attel a n l exploring tour tho time coat coast allotted to It And now no the party has hu returned to civilization having gene pene penetrated bated the Ih lee leD barriers flu fill to 10 the louth south making runny many geographical discoveries and amid correcting ninny many errors In the charts chart II of at previous explorers explorer in hut dolt to the time gathering of a t avast vast volume of ot magnetic ratio ind I data fI Thousands of ot photographs are Include cd ed In time tho collection Among the tho data lIo was IU tint that Ih the great leo Ice plain which limn tho expedition f crossed undoubtedly fed fad gel from the thc Ice cap amp of or Victoria Land mid that Ihal since Bin co Haass noa timo lino U 3 the lee Inns broken hack back for thirty miles along tho the edge of tho the barrier Another observe observation lion tion made mado wa wall was that thal when the expedition tion to the tho far ar western end cud of Victoria Lund Land crossed the degree for tor the tho first lime In lu history the compass point pointed ed cd exactly the wrong way a Indicating that the party had pasted passed to the tho south louth of ot the southern magnetic pole Iole The Tho explorers tell of hardships en endured lured dured during their travels In those thos re ro gloni glons The rhe expedition to the tar fir 31 western West est estern ern em end of Victoria Land Jand waa under undertaken un er taken under the limo severest con can conditions the explorers heads and tacos being cut by b the Iho Icy blasts timid and owing g to the tho of ot food roo 1 nial tho the average march of ten unites miles a 11 lay day dB each arh moan man lot lost about twenty during the six tte weeks k trip This can well be believed The rime expedition from Crom the ship preceded on sledges j miles south southwest west ell over Olor a vast continental plateau rising to u II height of feet the tho theto sea to 1 The chief object of these ditto exploration tion lions was to solve certain problems re ro relating roo lating to 10 terrestrial In tho the Interest Inlet of at navigation In tail lati latitudes twice tudes tu 1 The rhe following observations are arc made In the tho National Geographic Magazine llIe That a n vast Antarctic continent ex late perhaps twice as liS large as its that of would seem eem to be proved by hy bythe bythe the reports now appearing of or tho the le re explorations exploration In ht 11 that region The American Commander WilkeR return In lug from flom tho the tar far south In ISH 1541 assorted the tho existence of oC n a vast nAt South Polar Point continent anti and described his voyage of ot otI 1500 I OO miles males In sight of or the tho roast coast Ross Kosi however hoor returning soars noon after discredited I Wilkes conclusion saying that tho limo laud land seen en by b Wilkes was AS merely a 1 greet Irell t unit 1011 of or Ice The Tho world worM has been In doubt which to believe That How floss wets was wrong mid and right Is I very Vcr evident from tho tin report of at Captain Scott of the Antarctic Expedition of lit 1901 I Captain Scott shows tint that the mass of Ico ice seen seenI by I Ross floss Is In reality 1 an extensive sIll glut glacier cier cler resting on land arid and covering tho the tholand theland land lund like Ilko tile the Ice Ico cop CliP of ot Greenland Tho The glacier Is about miles tulles wide mill and reaches tho t e sea lien through u rl I plain lying hying between Victoria Land and ami VII 11 Ind The rime German expedition cx under Von Pon on working 80 SO degrees of longitude further flirt her west wesl oleo also found fo nd n a somewhat of land hand whoso whose limits they were unable to trace but hut which In Is apparently a r part of or orthe the scone same Antarctic continent |