The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-29
NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS PROJECTED.


A Fleet OF ships I'm Search OF the Pole.
The latest accounts from Germany, through tho
medium or Dr. Augustus Petermanns Mtttheilunyen,
convey the intelligence OF the further multiplied
ton OF North Polar expeditions in various parts OF
Europe, destined to move the high north without
delay Among the first of these to sail will be the
expedition which is generously designed to coope-
rate this summer with that OF Lieutenants Payer
and Wyprecht and is equipped and managed by
Count Wiltschek. This distinguished patron Of
science will sail first to Troms0e and thence direct
to Hornsund in Spitzbergen, after which he VIII go
to NOrdkushe in Nova Zembla, and transfer his sup
plies for the Austrian party.
The expedition under Payer and Wyprecht left
Bremerhaven on the 18th OF June, and are now
doubtless wen on their way into the seas east OF
Sptzbergen, where it is their purpose to ascer-
tain the surface currents, the thermal curves and
the general meteOrology and biology OF these
waters, and ultimately to eadeavor to follow the
supposed path OF the Gulf Stream towards the Pole,
and thus to test the "Thermometric Gateway"
theory o. Captain Silas Bent, OF St. Louis.
Captain Svend Foyn, Norwegian sea captain OF
note and a renowned whaler, is fitting out pri-
vate undertaking. combining research with sport,
and he will go out in steamer specially prepared
to rough it in the Siberian seas. similar
spOrtsmanke and sem-scientlnc enterprise Is also.
preparing by Captain Jensen, OF Drammen, in the
steamer Cape Nor, destined also for the Siberian
seas.
The most important, however of all these pro-
jected expeditions, next to that of Payer and Wy
precht in the steamer Admiral TegethOn, Is the
latest great Swedish North Pole Expedition, under
the command Of Professor NOrdenskiyld. This
Swedish exploration will be under the protection
and at the expense of the government and IN q
vessel Of the Swedish navy, verifying, as Dr. Peter
mann says, the remark Of Maury, that ''navfes are
not al9ae (er wsrn Rgt have mission as high ana
Professor NOrdenskivd will winter In 1872-1673,
If possible, at Parry Island, north OF Spitzbergen,
latitude so deg 40 min., and will endeav0r rom
that point in February, 1879 to push on to the Pole
The French expedition under Ambert and Mack,
will change their original plan Of going via Behring
Strait and nave determined to make q movement
between Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla, in the sup
make another test Of Captain Bents "thermO-
metric" paths to the Pole.
Three other distinct efforts at Polar discovery
will also be soon made by gentlemen already well
known to the geographical world-Messrs.
Ikhuni0pp, Menert and Pavy. The first Will sail
with Russian crew, and winter in latitude TN
North, on Karmakuly Bay. Meinert goes very
nearly in the route OF Captain Svend Foyn, OF Nor
way, and Pavy, an American by birth, modest but
dauntless will make the novel experiment by way
OF Behring Strait on his celebrated raft.
These various enterprises, with those already IL
Polar waters, will constitute q powerful neet or
Polar discovery, and we may hope will prove sue
. cessful in their combined attempt to capture the
objective point Of Arctic geographical research.