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'I'll niiiijli riiiirUsy af I'lipiil ir M eilia nics Mnr/a:i>ie 

 At till' South Poll' then' is land which lessens danger and gives permanent landmarks 



this connection are those of Barentz, Bering, Wrangell, Hudson, Baffin, 

 Parry, Frankhn, Xordenskjold, Koldewey, Weyprecht, Kane, Hall, ISIark- 

 iiani, Lockwood, Melville, Nansen and Ahriizzi. 



South polar exploration dates l)ack hut one hundred and forty years. 

 As a matter of fact serious attempts to penetrate the Antarctic continent 

 date hack only to the heginning of the present century, twelve years ago. 



Though the Antarctic circle was entered for the first time by Captain 

 James Cook in 1773, no landing appears to have been made on the Antarctic 

 continent until IS!),"); no expedition wintered inside the Antarctic circle 

 until fS!)7, and no real penetration of the continent was effected until 



The inu-;U ox is an invalnahlo sotirre of food supply in north polar exploraiion 



