The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-01
NEW LAND
SOUGHT BY EXPLORERS FOR
 UNITED STATES.
Think Another GsreehIand Exists in
 Far North--call on PFesfdeht Roosevelt to Get Aid--FeRi- lOus and stormy Trip.

Washington Special V. Y. Sun. President Roosevelt was made ac- qua!nted today with the plans of an ex- | petition intended to locate and possess
 for the United States u great and un-
 known continent or enormous archipela- go. about the size of Greenland, which
 exists somewhere between the Parry Islands and wfangel Land, off the si-
 berian coast. | Capt. Mikkelson, a Danish subject,
 who will be the leader of the expedl- ton. had been offlciAlly indorsed by the
 Danish Minister and was personally in- troduced to the President by Henry Ed
 ward Rood, Of Harper's Magazine, Afterward Capt. Mikkeison and Mir.
 Rood announced the details of this new exploration plan. which Is said to Do
 novel in the history of Arctic expedi- tions.
 capt MikkeIson has no intention of | trying to reach the North Pole. an un- ldertaking which he believes to be both | impossible and useless of attainment. In addition to his intention to locate
 the unknown Arctic continent. he de-
 sires to make scientific expeditions
 which probably will result in new and l important additions to present knowl- edge of geology, meteroiogy, hydrog- | raphy and probably ethnology, astrons
 omy and physics
 | EGOkTaUniCAl DOulGG NAEUuBHV0l NuG
 world are agreed that a continent or q mass of islands, lies to the north and
 west of the Beaufort Sea. in the one
 wholly unexpiored region of the Arctic i Ocean. Capt Mikkelson says that upon
 discovering the new continet he has
 arranged to plant there the American flag, to comply with necessary formal.
 ities, and claim 1t as possession oi | the United States.
 | Accompanying Cant. Mikkelson will
 be Ernest Leffiingwell, of illinois,. his partner In the undertaking. who will have charge Of all the scientific work
 and Ejmmar Ditlevsen, or Copenhagen
 who is both a zoologYst and an artist | DitIevsen served with Mixkelson In the
 Andrup Polar expedition Of 1900. and
 Leffinswell was in the Baldwin -Zeigler
 Arcticl Journey Of 190i-z.
 ] Mir Lefiinsweirs father prominent
 educator of Knoxville. Ill. has sub soribed several thousand dollars to the
 undertaking, as has Capt. Mikkelson himself Additional sums have been obtained from individuals in America,
 as well as through Sir Clements Robert | Markham, K. c. B.. president of the Royal Geographical Society of England and the Duchess of Bedford. | If tha latter part of May Mr. Letung-
 vell. and MT. Ditlevsen will start from Edmonton, British North America, on 1 a voyage of 2,300 miles 60 the mouth or the Mackenzie river. where neet of eleven Arctic whalers are now frozen ia. For the first l.3O0 miles they will jour
 ney in a light skin. built for rough
 water and shooting rapids. This boat will be waiting for them atsAthabascaI Landing. Arriving at Fort Smith, Great Slave Lake. they will board q steam boat of the Hudson's Bay Company and travel in her the remaining thousand miles.
 Meanwhile Capt. Mikkleson will sail from San Francisco for Boring Strait, carrying his outfit of sledces. furs. provisions. firearms and scientiffic ap- Practically all of this equip 1 was constructed or gathered in Denmark and Norway and Is aboard d , steamer which Is due in New York with in few days.
 neumber of prominent Americans have undertaken to provide n ship through subscription and it Is expected that some $3.000 still needed to complete the purchase of a suitable vessel will be forthcoming. In Cnis event Capt. Mikkelson will sail under American eolors with .an American crew and a competent sailing master with whom he can safely leave the craft when he and Lefingwell and Ditlevsen abandon 1t,
 After passing Boring strait Capt