AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS 



ponies, a motor car and other equipment, entered the Ant- 

 arctic regions near the 180th meridian. Passing through 

 Ross Sea and along the edge of the great ice barrier, 

 they almost reached King Edward VII Land, but found 

 further progress in that direction blocked by impenetrable 



ANTARCTIC RECIONS 



Route followed by E. II. Shackleton, 190S-1909 



pack-ice. They then proceeded to Cape Royds near the 

 volcano, Mount Erebus. Here the Nimrod left them and 

 went north, to return the following spring. Relatively 

 elaborate winter quarters were established at Cape Royds 



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