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and without hampering oneself with too heavy loads, 
nearly double the quantity of provisions necessary 
for a certain distance to be travelled must be taken, 
just because of those heavy gales mentioned, which 
not only make it difficult to travel, but difficult to 
Gee lhc facts, besides the great heights of 
Ке а Land with its difficult glaciers, give the 
travelling within the Antarctic Circle quite another 
aspect CO ihat бї the Arctic: Also at sea in the 
pack-ice, it seems to me that the difficulties presented 
by the screwing must needs be greater than in the 
КОП In the vicinity of Cape Adare, a position 
which corresponds to that of Northern Norway in 
the Northern Hemisphere, the ice and meteoro- 
logical conditions afford much greater danger to 
the traveller than do those higher latitudes in the 
North which are ruled by average temperatures 
сша to those at Cape Adare. 
It-seems as if an early break-up of the ice in 
the bay, eastwards of the land stretching from Cape 
Adare down to the active volcanos Erebus and 
Terror, takes place every year; and occasionally, I 
presume, the ice even breaks up for weeks at a 
time in late autumn and early spring; thus travel- 
iis at sea in the pack, as well as in Robertson 
Bay and the big Ross’ Bay to the east, always 
will be a perilous undertaking. In my opinion, 
successful exploration within the Antarctic Circle 
must needs. be local; I mean, confined to опе 
locality. If too big a field for operations be 
attempted, the natural conditions and the varying 
Antarctic season would cause a failure. There 
ought also to be a close co-operation between 
