Tlii-ouijh cijurtcay of Popular Mechanics Magazine 

 There is shifting icp over deep sea at the North Pole making all exploration a 

 hazardous venture 



ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION COMPARED 



QUOTATIONS FROM AN ADDRESS BY REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY, U. S. N. 



ON THE OCCASION OF THE POLAR CELEBRATION AT THE AMERICAN 



MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ON APRIL 5 



THE contrast between fundamental physical conditions at the North 

 Pole and the South Pole is most striking-. The North Pole is 

 located in a deep polar sea basin. The South Pole is located 

 on a fijreat elevated snow plateau of unusual altitude. From this striking 

 contrast in physical conditions, arises and results the ji;reat adxantaire 

 which south polar exploration has over north polar — namely, that it can 

 be carried on over a permanent fixed surface remaining- the same from year 

 to year, instead of over the trciicherous and unstaljle surface of an ice- 

 covered ocean. 



North polar exploration antedates by many years the first south polar 

 attempts. For nearly four centuries the cpiest of the North Pole fired 

 the imagination and spuri'cd the clVorts of adventurous and ambitious men 

 of many nations. (Jreat Britain, Holland, Russia, (iermany, Norway, 

 Sweden, Spain, Austria, Italy and America sent out expeditions which took 

 part in the stern race in wiiich tlic iiixariable reward was failure and the 

 freciuciit ])ri/,e, deatii. .\mong the names that will always be famous in 

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