ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



coverer. This latter is the preferable course. The 

 following table illustrates the three methods. It is seen 

 at a glance that Mawson's present expedition has prac- 

 tically a terra incognita in the African quadrant (see 

 Figure 34). 



The cartographer is now faced with yet another set 

 of arbitrary boundaries, which is based apparently on 

 the fancies of the colonial offices of Britain, France, 

 Norway, and the United States. We may rapidly trav- 

 erse the events which led up to the first definite procla- 

 mation in 1908. 



Captain Cook took possession of South Georgia in 

 1775, while Captain Biscoe did the same for Graham 

 Land in 1832. Most explorers since have raised the 

 flag of their nation and taken possession in the name of 



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