ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



ground by the blizzards and flung twenty feet. One 

 party endured a blizzard which held them in their tents 

 for seventeen days. In November Wild led a party 

 to the east, where two great glaciers entering the 

 Shackleton Ice Shelf were discovered and named the 

 Denman and Scott glaciers. Immense chasms four 

 hundred feet deep prevented their progress to the east. 

 Another party under Jones marched west for two 

 hundred miles, and on December 22nd they reached 

 the Gaussberg, where relics of the German expedition 

 of 1902 were found. The party was relieved on Feb- 

 ruary 22nd, 1 91 3, and taken back to Australia. (Fig- 

 ure 25.) 



Mawson had not returned in time to be relieved at 

 Commonwealth Bay, missing the ''Aurora" after his 

 terrible journey by a few hours only. With six com- 

 panions he carried on work during a second winter. 

 On February 15th wireless contact was made wath 

 Macquarie Island, and on February 22nd messages 

 were sent to Australia. On December 12th the 

 ''Aurora" returned and picked up the remainder of 

 the expedition. On her cruises the "Aurora" had 

 done much oceanographical work and Davis discovered 

 Mill Rise — a submerged mountain, some two hundred 

 and fifty miles south of Tasmania. 



FiLCHNER 



Filchner in command of a German expedition suc- 

 ceeded in establishing a record in the Weddell Sea, 

 which so far has not been broken. He left Grytviken 

 in South Georgia on the eleventh of December, 191 1, 



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