The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-02-29

portion of unknown territory on the
globe.
The expeditions objective is to be
the land whose mountain peaks Peary
saw dimly in the distance from the
summit Of Cape Thomas Hubbard on
June 80, 1906, while he was on his
way northward toward the pole. Peary
left a record that the land was visi-
BILE to the northwest above the ice
horizon" He named it Crocker Land
in honor of the late George Croker of
the Peary Arctic club.
The title under which the new arc
tic exploration will be attempted is
1.-THE Croker Land Expedition" In
charge of the work will be two of the
young men who went with Peary on
his final expedition to the north pole
They are George Borup, assistant cura-
tor Of geology in the American Mu-
scum of Natural History, and Donald
B. Macmillan, a graduate of Bowdoin
university.
Support For the Expedition.
Because it's directors believe that the
work of Borup and Macmillan, will be
of great value to the cause of scientific
exploration and a distinct credit to the
nation first accomplishing the results
proposed, the American Museum Of
Natural History has assumed charge
of the expedition.
The museum has associated with it.
self in the enterprise The American
Geographical society, Yale university
and number of other institutions and
Individuals
Henry Fairfield Osborn. president of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory; Chandler Robbins. chairman of
the executive council of the American
Geographical society. and Thomas
Hubbard, president of the Peary Arc
tic club, appear as signers of a docu-
ment setting forth the expeditions
scope and plan.
With this statement is appended let
tiers indorsing the plan from Theodore
Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Peary, Pro-
fessor Herbert E. Gregory of Yale, and
q number of others familiar with the
problems of Arctic exploration.
q. 0. Hovey Of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History, and II. l..
Bridgman of the Peary Arctic club,
have been named as a committee on
arrangements for the exploring tour.
Hope to Start In July.
Borup and Macmillan will take with
them when they start out three years.
provisions for four white men, their
helpers and their dogs; power boat,
moving picture machine, instru-
ments for all kinds of records, a phy-
stefan. a cook and cameras for use
whenever a moving picture machine
would not be available.
1t is proposed to take the expedition
northward on q special steamship in
July OF this year and to send another
special steamship to Etah to bring it
pack in 1914. In the intervening two
years the explorers will have at their
disposal the power boat carried with
them and such sledging outfits and
stores Of pemmican and walrus meat
as are collected en- route.
After leaving Sydney. about july 20.
the explorers will make their way
northward by ship to d point 70 de-
gress 10 minutes north latitude, which
Will bring them to the south coast of
the Bache peninsula. about sixty miles
northwest of Etah
Here they will go into winter quar-
ters and will establish their first prin-
cipal cache. About the middle of Sep
TENDER they will begin sledging north
ward toward Cape Thomas Hubbard
at the extreme northwest corner Of
Axel Heiberg Land, the point from
which Peary saw the mountain peaks
of Croker Land.
The plan is to do all the sledging be-
tween the headquarters on the Bache
peninsula and Cape Thomas Hubbard,
a distance of $50 miles, during the
long arctic night This will find them
with stores and provisions at Cape
Hubbard at the end of the long night
ready to push off across unexplored ice
fields with the return of the dawn in
February, 1913.
The dash to Croker Land, an esti-
mated distance Of $50 miles, is sched-
uled to end the first portion of the
campaign. Once on Croker Land it is
proposed to look about throughout
March and April. These two months
are counted on to see the fulfillment
of the expeditions most serious hopes
in the making Of maps and surveys,
taking Of photographs and recording
of tidal and temperature observations
and the collecting Of fora and fauna.
What they find in Crocker Land
may largely determine the course Of
events to be pursued by Borup and
Macmillan thereafter. If they find
game and can bag enough Of it for a
comfortable living they will not be in
go much Of hurry as otherwise to
press back to their cache at Cape
Thomas Hubbard. ..,..s
~a IF thev find that two months js time