The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
NUMBER 5.
qhe Worlds Arctic Exploration.

Those old and daring navigators of
the sea, the Dutch and the Danes, have
Joined the other Powers in the combined
investigation of the Arctic regions. The
first Dutch expedition set out In the
steamer Willems Barens last May from
Amsterdam, commanded by Lieutenant
Hofmann. This vessel is to make pro-
longed cruise in the Arctic Ocean for
meteorological observations and also to
explore more thoroughly the seaway to
the mouths of the great rivers of Siberia.
The second expedition was to have sailed
last month and is bound for Dickson
Haven, the Dutch station of observation
IN the Arctic Ocean Some of the most
scientific men in Holland have accom-
panied it. The Danish steamer Dympna,
under command of Lieutenant How
gard, left Copenhagen on the 18th of
July, amid great popular acclamations.
Her entire crew have seen service in the
Arctic. The expedition was fitted out
by popular subscription and under the
auspices of the Navy Department. Her
commander is a young man only twenty
five years of age. who has had three
years experience in tho Arctic region
and was companion of Professor Nor
denskjold in the Vega. The course of
the Dympna is from Copenhagen to
Tromso, Norway, where coal and stores
will be taken on board, and from that
point the vessel will sail for the Kara
Sea and Cape Tsjeljuskin, point that
has only been. reached twice before,
From here the three main objects
of the expedition viii be attempted;
first, whether the current and ice
will permit of further explora-
ton without too much risk; second, to
examine whether Franz Josef Land
stretches toward the most northern point
of Asia; and, third, whether the east
coast of Franz Josef Land runs in
south-and-north direction. Lieutenant
Hovgaard will bring his vessel to the
southeast coast of this land, and then by
sleds will attempt an overland journey
northward. These Dutch and Danish
expeditions, we believe, now complete
the list, and vessels belonging to every
civilized nation are now either ON their
way to the Arctic, or already there at
their stations, like our own. Men famous
in every department of science have ac-
companied them, and they have taken
with them all the instruments known to
modern science and all the conveniences
to make life endurable in that inhospi-
table region for a period of three years.
They will make exhaustive meteorologi-
cal observations, and will study all the
physical peeuliarities of the Arctic
region. As they are not bent upon any
wild-goose chase or any search after the
unsearchable, we may expect the most
valuable results from their united efforts,
and none of those tidings of suffering.
disaster and death which have hitherto
followed the sailing of ill-fated vessels
in quest of the pole All the stations
are within limits already traversed, and
none of the expeditions, possibly except
the Danish, will venture beyond them.
we may therefore look for a most ex-
tremely interesting account of the char
acter of this distant section of the earth,
which has had such fatal faseinations for
mariners and explorers for ages past
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