The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-09
BY BASSETT STAlNES.

experienced man, like Peary or gallant
Captain Sverdrup of the FRAN
Nansen only obtained S125, 600
mostly from the Norwegian govern
ment' with which to build the Fran"
ana equip her for the drifting expedi-
ton which landed him "sarthest
north. When Capt. Sverdrup took
the Fran" on her second Polar ex-
pedition-1S9S-1902- only asked his
government for $7,225, which was
granted. AXel Heiberg and the
Ringues brothers, patriotic Norwe~
glans, put up the rest of the money.
some $4,000 or S50,00 With this
comparatively small sum, Sverdrup
carried out one of the most successful
Arctic expeditions in recent years.
Peary has said, in effect, Give me
100000, and 1 wfll reach the pole .
Nansen declared that there was q. Ger
talnty of reaching the pole if the
leader of an expedition could have I'M
limited funds at his command. Other
Arctic explorers have said the same
thing.
Expeditions Lack Equipment.
There has probably not been a
Polar expedition in which the leader
has had everything that he wanted
ne has always been Obliged to go
with the best ship and the best equip
ment he could afford, not with the
best that money could buy. And be-
cause of his lack of funds, he has
usually been obliged to make what
is termed "a dash for the pole in
stead OF advancing, by a series of ex-
peoltlons and relief expeditions, from
one base to another and leaving de-
pot OF stores and provisions all along
his route.
Probably the best equipped expe-
oltlon that has engaged in Polar work
IN recent years is the British National
expedition now in the Antarctic nm
the Discovery. private individual
gave $l25,0OO towards it, the British
government 1925 900, and learned
podles about 100000. A ship was
punt for the purpose, and 80 far as
human forethought could provide,
nothing was wanting to secure sue
cess when she sailed
The Antarctic Expedition.
The consequence of this large expe-
dltlon IS that the Discovery has
zone petter work than has ever been
done before in the Antarctic. She has
reached the farthest point south. 80
degrees, IL minutes outlasting the Ger
man, Swedish and Scottish expeditions
which went out about the same time.
There was no particular desire in this
case to reach the South Pole. the OBJ
Jects of the expedition being strictly
scientific.
Since 1895. when the present boom"
IN Arctic and Antarctic exploration be-
gan, there have been a far greater
number of expeditions into the Polar
seas than the general public has any
idea of. Some of these expeditions
set forth with a great flourish of
trumpets and were much written about
IN the newspapers, but the achieve
ments of others are known only to the
geographical societies and other learn
ed bodies specially interested in the
subject.
Explorers Without Fame.
Everybody has heard of Nansen and
Peary, Walter Wellman and the Duke
of the Abruzzi; but other explorers
have done equally good work without
getting 1.-THE of their fame. And
the roll of the men who have made a
dash for one or other of the Poles dur
ing the past few years shows that no
one nation leads the rest in this ad-
venture. Americans, Englishmen,
Danes, Russians, Swedes, Belgians
Norwegians, Frenchmen and Italians
have all competed for the prize of vic
tory. Even South America has taken
hand. The Argentine government re-
Gently sent a ship into the Antarctic
to rescue DR.. Otto Nordenskjold, whose
vessel was crushed in the ice.
Here are the names of only a few
of the men who have done good work
in the Arctic and Antarctic since 1896:
Men who Have Led Expeditions.
Sir Martin Conway, the explorer of
Spitzbergen; A. Trevor Battye of Kol-
guev fame; DR.. j. w. Gregory and Mr..
Garwood, whose work has been geolog-
ical; H. E. Conway, an English artist,
who has gone out with expeditions to
paint Arctic scenes and won fame by
the striking canvases he brought home;
F. S. Jackson, of the Jackson Harms
worth expedition, who discovered a new
sea and called it after the late Queen
Victoria; Arnold Pike, a daring Eng
iishman who took his small yacht into
the eternal ice above Spitzbergen in
1897 and corrected all the maps of the
region, striking off islands which did
not exist: Lieut.. Amdrup, the Dane
who explored the east Greenland coast
up to ~ degrees north latitude; Capt.
Tinker, of the trading ship Naranja,
who proved the practicability of the
new Siberian sea route from Russia to
the Far East: Lieut.. De Gerlache, a
Belgian, who went to the Antarctic
some years ago with a small, badly
equipped expedition: c. e. Borchgre-
wink, another Antarctic explorer; Prof.
Neumayer, who led a German expedi-
ton on a dash to the South Pole; DR..
X. ]. ". Steenstrup, a Dane; DR.. A.
G. Nathorst. a Swede, who conducted
an Arctic expedition in a ship called
the Antarctic" and was the first to
circumnavigate Spitzbergen; Herr
Theodor Lerner. the German explorer
of the King Charles Islands; NJ. Stad-
ling, Swede. who failed to find the
lost balloonist, Andree; Baron Won
Toll, the Russian nobleman, who has