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THOUGH Sir Ernest Shackleton has adopted plans for an antarctic expedition that were formulated and published by me even before his return from his last expedition, and details of which have appeared since that time in various scientific journals, and in the public Press,1 my view has always been that one explorer should not stand in the way of another, but as soon as one has secured money—a task more arduous than carrying out any plan whatever in the field—he should carry out whatever plan he pleases, and should receive, if he desires, any assistance that the other may be able to give. Therefore I welcome Sir Ernest Shackleton entering what has for a century mainly been, so to speak, the Scottish sphere of influence in the antarctic regions.
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Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol. xxiv., No. 4, April, 1908; vol. xxvi., No. 4, April, 1910 NATURE, March 24, 1910, p. 101; and October 27, 1916. p. 551. Polar Exploration, by W. S. Bruce, chap, x., pp. 252, 253. (Williams and Norgate, 1911).
Polar Exploration, by W. S. Bruce, p. 247.
Morrell's Voyages, 1822-31, Capt. Benjamin Morrell, 1832, chap, p. 69.
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BRUCE, W. Shackleton's Transantarctic Expedition, 1914. Nature 92, 533–534 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092533a0
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