The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-07
THE NEAREST TO THE POLE
DUKE OF ABRUZZI FURTHER
NORTH THAN HANSEN.
Return of the Stella Polare to Tromsoe,
Norway I'm the Ice for Eleven
Months and Badly Damaged-iIarG-
ships Suffered.

Christiani, Sept GA telegram from
Tromsoe, Norway, in reporting the re-
turn of the Stella Polare, with the Duke
of Abruzzi's Arctic expedition on board
says that the Stella Polare reached a
point in latitude Sc degrees 80 minutes
north, thus penetrating further north
than DR. Nansen did
The Stella Polare remained fast in the
ice foT eleven months. The pressure
stove in her sides, making hole foot
and a quarter in breadth. Her machin-
cry was also damaged.
The members Of the expedition suffer-
ed many hardships and were compelled
to eat their sledge-dogs. A Norwegian
engineer and two Italians, members of
the expedition, persisted.
The news of the assassination of
King Humbert of Italy, uncle of the
Duke of Abruzzi, was communicated to
the duke off Hammerfest. The Stella
Polare, therefore, did not communicate
with the shore there, but proceeded
southwark.
DR. hansen, who returned from his
expedition to the Arctic regions in Au-
gust, 1896, reported that he left his YES
sci, the Fran on March IA, 1895, in 81
degrees north latitude and traversed
the Polar sea to q point Sc degrees IA
minutes north, situated north of the
new Siberian islands. This was a point
four degrees further north than any
previous explorer had reached.
Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta,
Duke of Abruzzi, who was born in 1873
and who recently climbed Mount st.
Elias, in North America, on the boun-
Diary between Alaska and British Co
lumbia. left Christiania on June ~, 1899,
in the steam brigatine Stella Polare,
formerly the Jason, laden with $50 tons
of coal and $50 tons of provisions, ETC.,
including 1900 package each containing
rs Kilograms of matter and formed In
such a way as to be easily carried on
the arm or shoulder Of single person.
These bundles We're divided into four
categories-food clothing and equip
ments, scientific instruments, and use
full but not Indispensable articles
The members of the expedition WERE
in addition to the duke, the Cavaliere
Umberto Cagni, captain in the Royal
italian navy: Count Quirini, a naval
lieutenant; DR.. Cavalli- Molinelli, two
able bodied seamen Of the italian navy,
Giacomo Cardenti and Simone Camepa;
four mountain guides, Giuseppe Petit
gaux, Aesso Fennolliet, Felice Olliere,
and Michael Savoye ten Norwegian
sailors and one Eskimo for the man
agement of the dogs, of which there
were 100. All the members of the expe-
dition were supplied with an Eskimo
equipment for the polar season, and the
collection of scientific instruments and
apparatus was large.
The dukes plan to reach the pole was
exactly opposed to that adopted by
Nansen. The latter attempted to ap-
proach the pole by the longest route,
and with his ship, either by the open
sea or letting himself drift with the ice
trusting to the strength of the Fran
to withstand the tremendous strain. The
duke planned to make only a limited
use of the Stella Polare, and to push on
in as straight line as possible over the |
ice with sleds, after leaving the ship. |
The Stella Polare carried twenty sleds, |
each weighing 4Sss pounds and every |
sled was to carry eight aluminium box
es packed with stores and d canoe. The |
runners of the sleds were shod with |
metal, and had protective, re-
movable wooden soles. Forty pairs of !
ski were also carried and forty pairs of |
snow shoes.