Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-03-14
AMUNDSEN'S
STORY OF TRIP
TO south POLE
Norwegian Explorer Relates Us
Experiences During Voy-
age Of Discovery,
REACHED HIS GOAL DEC. ID
Remained at So~uthernmost Point
Three Days Taking Series of
Observations.
REACHED HIS GOAL DEC. ID
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Hobart, Tasmania, March s. 11:2U
a. m.-On the 10th of February, 1911,
we commenced to work II way to.
ward the south, from that day to the
Nth of April establishing three de-
pots, which in all contained a guam.
tity OF provisions Of about 5000 kilos,
The ground and the state of the
barrier were of the best, especially
well adapted to driving with dogs. On
Feb. Is we had thus travelled about
ZOO kilometers. On the 4th Of March,
on our return from the first trip be.
ginning on the 18th of February, we
found out that the Fran had already
left us. With pride and delight VIZ
heard thar her smart captain had sue.
ceeded in sailing her further south
and there hosting the colors of his
and his comrades, the furthest north
and the furthest south, good old Fran.
The highest latitude attained was Is
degrees Il minutes.
Before the arrival Of winter we had
5000 kilos Of seal meat in the dep0ts
enough for ourselves and ITO dogs
Eight dog houses, a combination CT
tents and To- huts, were built.
The sun left us on the 22nd of April
and did not return until four months
lotion Tho wintnT WOO cnn-t in ohorr
ing Our whole outfit, which on the de
pot trips was found to be too clumsy
and solid for the smooth surface Of
the barrier. Besides this as much
scientific work as possible was done
and some astonishing meteorological
observations were taken.
FIRST START FOR THE POLE.
On Sept. s eight men, with sever
s1edges, ninety dogs and provisions
for four months started. Thu
ground was perfect. The temperature
vas not bad. The next day it ap
peared that we had started too early
as the temperature of the following
days fell and vas kept steady between
minus so and 80 celsius (5S degrees
and 76 degrees) below zero Fahren
heit. We agreed on returning and K
wait for the arrival of spring. The
provision were cached and we re
turned to the hut. About the middl,
of October spring came in earnest.
On Oct. 20 the exploring party start
ed; five men, four sledges, ffty-twt
dogs and provisions for four months
everything in excellent order.
We had made up our minds to take
the first part of the trip as easily a:
possible, in order to give ourselve.
and the dogs a rational training ant
on the 23rd we made our depot in 81
degrees south. We wept right aheat
In spite of the dense fog. On the 31s
W reached the depot at 81 degrees
and stopped there one day.
We reached the depot at 50 degrees
on the 5th of November. On the It'll
we made the interesting discovery tina
the Ross barrier terminated in a bigh
toward the southeast at sc degree
south latitude and 1863 degrees ives
longitude formed between the south
east mountain range running froE
South Victoria Land and a range o.
the opposite side running in a south
easterly direction.
Z. On the 18th we reached "a degrees
where we established a depot, On tn
18th we were at IS degrees, wher,
also, W. made a depot. On the 1T
of November, at IS degrees, we a
rived at a place where the land an
barrier were connected.
Here We made our head depot, tai
ing provisions for sixty days c
sledges and leaving thirty days pr
visions on the spot.
A DIFFICULT CLIMB.
The land under which we lay ar
which We now had to attack locke
4lite imposing. The nearest SUNNI
along the barrier had a height fro
1000 20 10000 feet, but several OF
ers further south were $4,000 feet
more The next day we began IL
climb.
The first day we climbed 1000 fee
the next day mostly up some sma
glaciers, camping at a height of 4,5,
feet. The third day we we're obligt
to- go down on a mighty glacier, "Ax
Heiberg's glacier" which divided tt
coast mountains and the mountai
further south.
1t took only four days from t
Barrier to get up on the vast inlal
plateau. We camped that night at
height of 10000 feet. Here we had
kill twenty-four of our brave comps
ions and keep eighteen, six for ca
of our three sledges. We stopp
here four days on account of b
weather. Tired Of this we set out
the 25th of November. We cont
ued our march the next day in
gale and a dense snow drift and
our faces badly frozen. We could 6
aothing. We reached that day 86