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AUSTRALIA and New Zealand have always been anxious for further knowledge of the great frozen continent lying to the southward of them. Because the Ross sea area is more conveniently situated to the south geographic pole, most expeditions to the Australian quadrant have wintered there. This has led to the neglect of the great coast-line westward of Cape Adare. Our information regarding it is very fragmentary, and for the most part untrustworthy. Properly equipped, an expedition to this-region should have no difficulty in achieving great geographical successes. In the words of Dr. H. R. Mill, βIt is time, at any rate, that someone should revisit the lands discovered by Biscoe, Balleny, D'Urville, and Wilkes.β¦β
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The Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1 . Nature 86, 231β233 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086231a0
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