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THE or EXPLORATION. THE existence of an Antarctic continent is still based on circumstantial evidence, and until more tharf some 5000 miles of its coastline, or only about 35 per cent, of the total length, are known, direct evidence of Antarctica will be lacking. It is not a little remarkable that all the exploration of the twentieth century has merely modified the probable outline of that continent as it was predicted by Sir John Murray in 1886. He had little but the reports of Ross, d'Urville, Wilkes, a few sealers, and the Challenger to go on, and, mainly on circumstantial evidence, he built his Antarctic continent. The one considerable change in that map has been the curtailment of the Weddell Sea and the removal of its southern extremity some four degrees north of Murray's position in lat. 82° S.
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BROWN, R. Some Problems of Polar Geography1. Nature 120, 407–410 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120407a0
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