MAY a? 1903 



SCIENCE 



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A chapter almost unique in the fascinating history of latter-day 

 scientific exploring expeditions 



ANTARCTICA, or 



Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole 



By Dr. N. OTTO G. NORDENSKJOLD and 



Dr. JOHAN QUNNAR ANDERSSON 



Dr. Nordenskj old's was one of the expeditions planned at the International Geographical 

 Congress of 1895, by which a concerted attack was made upon this enormous unknown tract 

 lying around the South Pole. The part assigned to the Antarctic was to approach the east 

 coast of the frozen southern land early in the autumn of 1901, penetrate as far southward as 

 possible and laud a wintering party of six under Dr. Nordenskjold himself. She was then 

 to return to the Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego, picking up the party in the follow- 

 ing sjjring. But the next year proved the coldest and hardest yet experienced in point of 

 ice conditions. The Antarctic was unable to reach the wintering-place again. Dr. Andersson 

 with two companions attempted to reach it over the ice. The ship tried to force a way 

 farther to the east. Both attempts failed ; the vessel was nipped by the ice and sank ; and 

 all three parties, isolated from each other, had to spend a second enforced winter in those 

 regions. 



Altogether the book forms as thrilling a narrative of scientific adventure as can be found 

 — all its adverse fortunes seeming to have but enhanced the value of the scientific and geo- 

 grajihical observations obtained by the expedition and made far more perfect by being con- 

 tinued through so long a period. 



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