ABSTRACT
The nineteenth century saw the exploration of the coasts of the Arctic regions almost completed. Only a few islands on the north-west edge of the Canadian Archipelago remained to be mapped by Sverdrup and Stefansson, and Peary reached the North Pole in April 1909 (see Chapter XII). Far different was the state of our geographical knowledge of Antarctic lands and seas at the close of the nineteenth century, so that this chapter describes the last years of world exploration. It was not till February 1899, that Borchgrevinck landed at Cape Adare, made his headquarters here for the following winter, and sledged inland a very short distance from this cape at the north-west corner of the Ross Sea.
