The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-13
NANSEN'S ARCTIC VOYAGE
The Famous Norwegian Explorer to
Start for the Frozen North Next June.
Re Thinks Nature Has Supplied the Means for
Reaching the Pole and He Will Endeavor
to Confirm His Theory.
ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
DE-. hansen VIII Try to Utilize Ocean Cur
rents TO Reach the Pole.

Dr. hansen VIII Try to Utilize Ocean Cur
rents TO Reach the Pole.
LONDON, Nov. 12-In q recent interview
with the famous Norwegian explorer. DR..
Nsnsen. regarding the plans for his arctic
as they have already been published. 1t
may not be uninteresting, however. to re-
peat that DE-. Nansen's scheme il essential
IL different from the plans followed By 9TH
or explorers in the frozen regions Of tho
north. Hitherto, with one possible excep-
ton, all attempts TO reach the North pole
have been made in defiance of the obstacles
of nature. Now an attempt will be made
TO ascertain whether nature herself has
not supplied means Of solving the diff
Guilty and whether there 10 not. after all.
possibility of reaching the North pole by
utilizing certain natural facilities IN these
frozen seas of which all early explorers
were ignorant. The circumstances upon
which these new hopes are based
%ay eupsdi.ion of s is a ans
the loss of that vessel seemed
to sound the knell of all expeditions to
reach the pole by Behring Sea straits. but
In June. 1884. exactly three years after the
Jeanette sank, there were found noar JUL
ianshaab, in Greenland, several articles
which had belonged to the jeanette and
had been abandoned at the time of its
wreck by the crew, and which had been
carried TO the coast of Greenland from the
opposite side of the Polar sea a on piece of
ice. This fact at once aroused curiosity.
rs to how 1t accomplished that weird
and mysterious voyage across the Arctic
ocean. and as TO what unknown current
had borne that significant and informing
message from Behring straits to Greenland.
and it is thought highly probable that
there is q comparatively short and direct
route across the Arctic ocean by way OF the
North pole. and that nature herself has
supplied means of communication, how
ever uncertain, across 1t.
DE-. Nansen's expedition will endeavor to
realize these hopes of direct route across
the apex Of the Arctic ocean. The expedi-
ton Will consist of ten or twelve men. In
the course of the interview Dr. Nansen re-
ferred TO Lieutenant Peary's recent expedi-
tion. He said: There are no points of
similarity between his expedition and
mine. Lieutenant Peary aimed to reach
the northernmost point of Greenland. My
the 1s osr pole Iseo ona
Lieutenant Peary's work was mar
veiously well done. and i fully
agree with his report made to the
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences that
reach any noiot in GresnIsna men th SOIiG
must cable him that there 10 . mistake in
hrs alleged remark about the use of rail-
way In Greenland. will take with me on
my expedition five years provisions. We
shss WILL rst1rn n Vs Fee
total cost o. the expedition 10 as yet un-
known. The Norwegian government sub
scribes fwo-thirds OF the cost and King
Oscar and others will privately donate the
Norway in. june ana proceed direct to
Nova Zembla.D