
POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912 Nankyoku Tanken Hikoki Sugoruku [Antarctic Expedition Airplane Sugoroku], [1911]
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POLAR - JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-1912
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A very good, clean copy of a "board game", issued as supplement to the New Year's edition of the children's magazine "Nihon Shonen" in 1911. Inspired by Japanese explore Shirase Nobu's contemporaneous expedition in search of the Pole, the aim of the goal is for players (setting off from Tokyo, London, New York or Berlin) to navigate in an aeroplane to the Antarctic, stopping off at exotic locations (Pyramids, Great Wall of China, etc.) and avoiding pitfalls along the way. Highly decorative the game is centred on a map of the Pole with eight surrounding polar scenes, and forty others, with the gaming pieces (aeroplanes) to be cut out from the margins retained intact here.