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THE two great Antarctic expeditions have made a stride towards completeness by the launch at Dundee and Kiel of the exploring ships Discovery and Gauss, both vessels built, at great expense, specially for service in the Antarctic ice. No complete official announcement of the organisation and programme of either expedition has yet been made. However, the two ships are afloat, and appear to be the finest vessels for ice-navigation ever constructed, not even excepting the Fram, which of course was planned for drifting with the ice-floes, not for sailing through them.
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The British and German Antarctic Ships . Nature 63, 591 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063591a0
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