The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-09-20
RECORD ARCTIC
EXPLORATIONS
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Commander De Long in the steamer
Jeanette 1881. The party went up
the Pacific coast through Boring strait
and attempted to push their way
through the ice toward the pole. The
ship was crushed and sank off the
north coast of Siberia. The men put
off in three boats. One commanded
by Lieut.. Chip was never heard Of.
The second, under Sngineer G.. W. Mel
vile, reached land safely, and with
the aid of natives, searched for the 9TH
ers.
Commander De Long and his party
of the third boat were discovered by a
relief expedition in miserable nuts on
the Siberian shore at the mouth of the
Lena river. Only two of his party
survived, and they were in the last
stages of starvation. In all, twenty
out of the thirty-three men in the ex-
petition we're lost.
Soon afterward another expedition
under Lieut., Greedy started up the
Greenland route. 1t had a horrible
experience from cold and starvation.
When rescuers reached them in 1884
in their last camp on a desert island
north of Greenlond only nineteen men
were left alive out of the twenty
four that started out.
PEARY MADE MANY TRIALS.
The most persistent explorer OF re-
cent years has been Commander Ro-
bert E. Peary of the United States
Navy. His first experience was in
1886, when he did some Greenland ex-
ploration. Ever since then he has
been working at the polar problem,
making half a dozen voyages under
auspices Of geographical and scientific
societies. Each time he succeeded in
forcing farther north, reaching "a de-
gress II minutes in 1907, and then the
record, 81 degrees minutes in 1906.
His dashes over the ice were made
after careful calculations of natural
conditions and human endurance Yet
with all his elaborate preparations the
pole still remained behind his reach.
SOME RECENT ATTEMPTS.
Some of the most recent OF note
worthy attempts to reach the north
pole are enumerated below.
Walter Wellman, an American, left
the Island of Spitzbergen for the pole
in balloon August IS, 1909. His air
ship became disabled after he had ira
veled thirty miles and he was forced to
return.
September 3, 1905, Capt. Roald
Amundsen, a Norwegian, completed
/ 49, -. ,oJuso ontvGssn ohC' north
west passage. He left Christiania on
the Gjoa June II, 1903, and arrived
at Herschel Island in the Arctic ocean
in September of 1905.
In 1904 Baron Toll, Russian, led a
polar exploration by way of Siberia,
but all the members persisted from the
cold.
In 1903 Erickson, a Dane, headed an
expedition and got as far as Saunders
Island, where they were rescued in a
destitute condition. In the same year
Anthony Fiala, young Brooklyn ex-
prorer, sailed on the ship America and
proceeded farther north than the Duke
of the Abruzzi. His party endured
great hardship before they were res
cued
The Northwest Passage, for which so
many early voyagers sacrificed their
lives, has been achieved, Capt. Amund-
sen of Norway having made it in 1904
1906, but the practical value OF such a
trade route has long since been dis
credited. More than 300 years ago,
Sir Martin Frobisher wrote regarding
the passage: ut is the only thing IN
the world that is left yet undone
whereby a notable mind might be
made famous and Fortunate
When it was done the fame was
SMALL the fortune insignificant. The
north poe long ago usurped the goal
of arctic exploration as the one mac
cessible spot in all the world.