The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume XVI, No. 6 [‎382r] (116/232)

THE MONTHLY RECORD.
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work of the latter are not yet to hand, but an interesting discovery was that of a
mountain south of Treurenberg bay, which was found to have a height of 5580 feet,
or 1180 feet higher than the Hornsundstind, hitherto supposed to be the highest
summit in the whole of Spitsbergen. The new peak is said (Globus, vol. <8, p. Ib.j)
to belong to a range which appears to be connected with Mount Chydenius. Other
unexpectedly great heights were found in the vicinity of Wijde bay.
Russian Expedition to Novaya Zemlya.— An expedition to the east coast
of Novaya Zemlya has been undertaken by the Itussian Lieut. Borissoff, who, alter
preparing winter quarters, passed through Matushkin strait into the Kara sea on
August 13, for the purpose of establishing depots of provisions for a sledge journey
ne ^t spring. He hopes to make his way northwards along the coast, and complete
the survey of the islands.
The Stein Arctic Expedition—This expedition, as to the safety of which
fears have been expressed in some quarters, has apparently extricated itself without
mishap from its somewhat precarious position. The Austrian member of the party,
Dr. Leopold Kann, arrived at Dundee on November 7, on board the whaler Eclipse,
and from statements made by him it appears that the expedition has been faiily
successful, having during the past summer made numerous excursions leading to an
improved knowledge of Ellesmere Land. Details of Mr. Stein’s movements have
not transpired, but it appears that he was left by Dr. Kann at Cape York so far
back as June 9. Visits seem to have been paid to his winter station, both by
Peary and his assistants.
Suggested International Co-operation in Antarctic Research.— M. H.
Ar$towski repeats in Ciel et Terre tbe arguments which he brought before the
British Association meeting at Dover,* as to the importance of wide international
co-operation in the study of the atmospheric conditions of the antarctic area
during the time when the forthcoming British and German expeditions are in the
field. ° He points out that the laws governing atmospheric and oceanic circulation
remain very obscure on account of the want of data from the antarctic area, and
he emphasizes the importance of simultaneous and combined effort in obtaining
records from a number of points on the margin of the south polar area. In 1902
the two expeditions will be supplemented in their work by the observatories of
Melbourne and Cape Town, by the German station on Kerguelen, and by Argentine
observers in the South Shetlands and at Staten island. He points out that there
is still time to organize further co-operation, and that the need is urgent to
investigate fully the meteorology of the stormy region of Cape Horn in particular.
He suggests the establishment of a polygon of stations uniting South America and
the antarctic lands, the suggested points being Punta Arenas, Staten island. Cape
Pillar one of the Diego Ramirez islands south-west of Cape Horn, the Falkland
Hands South Georgia, the South Shetlands, and, finally, one or two stations in
the lands discovered by the Belgica. He thinks that the Chilean government
mi^ht be induced to send one or two meteorologists to the lighthouse at Cape
Pillar • that France should send observers to Diego Ramirez ; and that Russia, where
neither men nor means are lacking for such an enterprise, should also co-operate.
MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Currents in Australian Waters and tire Southern Ocean.-In the fourth
instalment of current-paper statistics, placed befoie the Koyal Society of New
South Walts, Mr. H. C. Russell has to record an unusually large list of such papers
Geographical Journal, xiv. (1899), p. 584.