ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



S.) where there was a promising collecting ground for 

 fossils. The ship "Antarctic" left them on the four- 

 teenth of February, 1902, and here the party remained 

 until the tenth of November, 1903 (see Figure 7). 



During October of 1902 they sledged south about 

 two hundred miles to latitude 66° S., but most of their 

 time was spent in exploring and collecting within a few 

 days' journey of their hut. No ship came to their 

 relief in December, 1902, and they spent a second win- 

 ter in the Antarctic. In October, 1903, Nordenskjold 

 was exploring the region to the west w^hen he met two 

 begrimed and ragged beings who turned out to be two 

 of his countrymen, Anderson and Duse, w'ho had tried 

 without success to reach him from his relief ship early 

 in 1903. They had therefore built a stone hut at Hope 

 Bay, some one hundred miles to the north of Snow 

 Hill; and after a winter there had managed to get in 

 touch with him. Meanwhile Captain Larsen on the 

 "Antarctic" had met with dire misfortune, for the ship 

 was crushed by the terrible pack ice of the Weddell 

 Sea, and sank on the twelfth of February, 1903. Lar- 

 sen and his crew of nineteen reached Paulet Island, 

 about seventy miles northeast of Snow Hill, and here 

 a third hut was built, and so a third party spent the 

 winter of 1903 on the coasts of Graham Land. 

 When the ice broke out Larsen set off in a boat to visit 

 Hope Bay and then Snow Hill, where he arrived an 

 hour after the relief expedition sent by the Argentine 

 government in the ship "Uruguay." On the second of 

 December, 1903, they all reached Buenos Aires safely. 

 While not much was added to the map of Antarctica, 



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