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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Stuart. 
Mr. A. V. Stuben ranch. 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Sturtevant. 
Representative and Mrs. Halver Steenerson, of 
Minnesota. 
Representative and Mrs. WilHam Sulzer, of 
New York. 
Senator and Mrs. George Sutherland, of Utah. 
Mr. Frank Sutton. 
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Taylor. 
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Thomas. 
Mr. W. H. M. Thomas. 
Mr. S. A. Thompson. 
Senator John R. Thornton, of Louisiana. 
Hon. and Mrs. O. H. Tittmann. 
Representative and Mrs. H. M. Towner, of 
Iowa. 
Mrs. Rosa Townsend. 
Miss M. L. Trow. 
Rear Admiral and Mrs. N. C. Twining. 
Mr. and Mrs. William Perrine Van Wickle. 
Representative and Mrs. Edward B. Vreeland, 
of New York. 
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richard Wainwright, 
U. S. N. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Walker. 
Miss Laura P. Waller. 
Mr. Charles W. Warden. 
Mr. John L Waterbury. 
Miss Florence Waterbury. 
Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Wedderspoon. 
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Weed. 
Dr. and Mrs. George B. Welch. 
Mrs. Adrian Westervelt. 
Miss Nettie Lovisa White. 
Mr. George P. Whittlesey. 
Mr. W. Berkeley Williams. 
Mrs. George Huntington Williams. 
Mr. Charles Willoug'hby. 
Mr. John E. Wilkie. 
Hon. and Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley. 
Colonel and Mrs. M. A. Winter. 
Mr. Henry D. Winsor. 
General Maxwell O. Z. Woodhnll. 
Mrs. F. E. Wright. 
Mr. George Young, First Secretary British 
Embassy. 
Representative and Mrs. H. Olin Young, of 
Michigan. 
Mr. Rudolph de Zapp. 
AMERICAN DISCOVERERS OF THE ANTARCTIC 
CONTINENT 
By Major General A. W. Greely, U. S. Army 
"When I refuse, for any cause, the homage due to American talent, or abate the tithe of a 
hair from just character or just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." 
— Weestbr. 
CLOSE on the news of the Ameri- 
can discovery of the North Pole 
by Robert E. Peary comes by 
cable from Australia the intensely inter- 
esting story of the conquest of the South 
Pole by that chief of the Norse vikings 
of today — Captain Roald Amundsen. En- 
tering the broad field of Antarctic re- 
search, with keen perception and sound 
judgment he has profited by the experi- 
ences of his British predecessors, intro- 
ducing innovations as to eciuipment 
methods, field work, and lines of ap- 
proach. 
His wisely chosen route to the Pole 
was due to a sagacious recognition of the 
fact that the great oceanic ice-cap known 
as Ross' barrier, flowing from the south- 
east, is diverted from its course by the 
mountainous coast of South Victoria 
Land, whose outlying clifTs are ground 
by the almost irresistible force of the 
barrier. 
The onward movement of this incon- 
ceivably enormous body of solid ice, esti- 
mated by some to have a superficial area 
of 100,000 square miles, naturally pro- 
duces fathomless fissures in and great 
upheavals on the surface of the barrier 
bordering Victoria Land, while the east- 
ern sections along the coast of King Ed- 
dard VII Land remain in a state of 
comparative quiescence, with its surface 
unbroken by pressure and unmarked by 
crevasses. 
Again should be noted Amundsen's 
originality in locating his winter home 
on the ice-barrier and his restless energy 
during the autumn in establishing ad- 
vance depots on the colorless, unmarked 
ice-plain, with signals insuring their at- 
tainment after their burial by the winter 
snows. 
While displaying high qualities of re- 
sourcefulness and unusual powers of en- 
durance, Amundsen's human attributes 
