The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
POLAR VENTURERS OF PAST.
WiIloushby, Frobisher, Davis, Hudson,
| Franklin, Nansen, Abruxzi, Etc.

Franklin, Nansen, Abruzzi, Etc.
The best previous record 10 Or.
Cooks reported final triumph was
that Of Peary. who on April 26.l 1906,
reached the latitude or 81 degrees
minutes north of Greenland. Previous
to that time the Duke of the Abru.Zi's
expedition held the record of latitude
66 degrees "a minutes. which was
reached on April 25. 1900. north of
Franz Josef Land. Nansen's record
was sc degrees II minutes. made on
April Z, 1895.
quest which has drawn adventurous
men into the arctic regions for cen
turtles. The Norsemen were probably
the first Europeans to visit Greenland.
Sir Hugh Willoughby sailed in 1853
"for the search and discovery of
northern parts Of the world" He
discovered Nova Zembla, but starved
with most of his men in Lapland on
his return voyage. Frobisher in 1876
and Davis in 1856 made voyages to
Greenland and the north coast of
America. Henry Hudson In 1907
reached latitude 70 degrees on the
eastern coast of Greenland and added
to the knowledge of Spitzbergen,
which was discovered by Willem Ba-
,entz in 1896.
In 1907 Captain ellis made a voy-
age far to the eastward along the
northern shore of Greenland and saw
high land, which has since been
ellis Land, in latitude so degrees.
Captain Scoresby, in command Of a
whaler, succeeded in advancing his
ship, the Resolution, as far north as
latitude 81 degrees II minutes AZ Sec
onds in 1906. This record was not ex-
ceeded until Lieutenant Robert Peary
reached latitude 80 degrees as minutes
in an attempted dash for the pole from
the northern coast of Spitzbergen.
The i'll fated expedition of the Eng
lish admiral Sir John Franklin sailed
on May 10, 1916, and consisted of two
ships, the Erebus and Terror, with
crews of 1874 officers and men. The
ships were last seen in Baffin bay on
July &c in latitude "A degrees 4S min
utes. No great anxiety was felt until
1913, but in that and succeeding years
expedition after expedition was dis
patched in quest of the missing eX-
plorer and his men. Between 1913 and
1854 about fifteen expeditions set out
from England and America in the hope
of rescuing Franklin. Various traces of
the missing ships and crews were dis
covered through Eskimos, and in 1859
three sledging parties from Sir Leo
pold McClintock's relief expedition dis
covered all along the west and south
coast of King Williams island re-
mains of articles and skeletons, which
told the tale of disaster. A record was
discovered in n cairn at Point Vic
tory, which briefly told the history of
the expedition up to April %, 1913.
The record tells the tale of Franklin's
death and the beginning of the end for
the survivors and stated that twenty
four men had already died.
This is all that Is known of the fate
Of Franklin and his men. The catas-
trophe which overlook him led to 1000
miles Of coast line being discovered.
The interest aroused in America in the
search led to the expeditions of De
Haven and Griffith in 1850 and of DR..
Kane in 1853. Following these were
the American expeditions of DR.. Hayes
and of Hall. In 1871 Hall reached 80
degrees 16 minutes in the Polaris.
Probably the most spectacular at
tempt to discover the pole was that Of
the i'll fated Andree, who set out in a
balloon and has never since been heard
of.