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Show AT THE SOUTH POLE. Tho hardships or the Shackleton party, in an attempt to reach the south pole, Should prove a cogent reason why no further efforts should be made in that direction. The region reg-ion around the pole was reached during dur-ing summer in the southern hemisphere, hemis-phere, still tho thermometer Indicated 60 degrees below zero. The cold was so severo that It reduced the Internal temperature or the bodies or Uie explorers ex-plorers and placed the entire party In extreme peril through lowered vitality. vi-tality. The daring follows wore within 111 miles of the south pole, which point, from an eminence, might have permitted permit-ted them, by the use of Held glasses, to have covered tho spot which is designated as tho pole. They, therefore, there-fore, accomplished as much good Irom a sclent Iflc standpoint as though they had trod upon the polar snow. Lieut. Shackleton advanced 400 miles nearer the pole than any other explorer. The first Antarctic expedition expedi-tion was by Cook, which sot sail prior to the time of the founding or this government, or In 1773. He railed by 1200 miles to reach his objective point The records made by other explorers ex-plorers are as follows: Pelllnghausen, 1S21 you Wcddell, 1823 suo Morrell, 1823 suu Dumont d'Unille, 1840 liuu Ross, IS 41 700 Borchgrevlnk, 1900 600 "Discovery" ? boo The most important result or the voyage Is the locating of the "Magnetic "Mag-netic South Pole," which was determined deter-mined to be In latitude 72 degrees, 25 mluutes, longitude 154 east. The ) "Magnetic North Pole" is many de- grtes further from the north pole than I Is the Magnotic South Pole distant from the south pole, but both magnetic poles are variable, which accounts for discrepancies In old and new surveys based on lines run by the compass. Lieut. Shackleton's success Is comparatively com-paratively greater than that or Peary, Nan'sen or Abnizzl. The latter reacn-ed reacn-ed SG degrees, 33 minutes north, in 1900. |