To Investigate Mountain Range System of Graham's Lapd New York, Sept, 21.
Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, the noted explorer, left for Monte Videw today on a steamer, taking with him two aeroplanes and their pilots. He proposes to voyage in a whaler from Monte Video to Deception Island, which is 60 miles from the Antarctic coat.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, ina speech 4 luncheon given in his honour before his departure, said that he proposed to establish by means of flights whether the mountain ranges Graham's Land continued along the Pacific coast of the Antarctic Continent, He said he believed that intensive study of the meteorological eonditions around the Poles would pro duce valuable results, adding that weather conditions in the extreme north and south directly. influenced the weather in distant places such sis Plorida, China, India and Ejeypt ani, with" meteorological stations neat the Poles, at least 50 per cent. fond, Inter, even greater accuracy could be expected from meteorological bureaux instend of the present 35 per cent—Reuter,
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