24th of February
Historical
Antarctic Pictures and Events
1898 - The Royal Society holds a special meeting in London devoted to
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"The Scientific Advantages of an Antarctic Expedition"
to take no account of economic or political benefits that might be anticipated.
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"From a scientific point of view the advantages to be derived from a well-equipped
and well-directed expedition to the Antarctic would at the
present time, be manifold. Every department of natural knowledge
would he enriched by systematic observations as the order
in which phenomena co-exist and follow each other regions
of the earth’s surface about which we know very little
are wholly ignorant. It is one of the great objects of science
collect observations of the kind here indicated, and it
may be safe said that without them we can never arrive at
a right understandii of the phenomena by which we are surrounded,
even in the habitat parts of the globe."
So was heralded the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
