New-York tribune., 1912-02-14
MAY DEFINE AMERICA
Young LieutenantS of Peary viii
Explore CroCker Land.
TO SAIL NORTH IN JULY
Borup and Mcmillan Have Strong
Backing for Effort to Solve
Geographer's Last Problem.

Poary's young lieutenants, George Borup
and Donald B. Mcmillan, will start IN
July 20 search for the real Crocker Lana
the only part OF this continent not geo.
graphically defined. Explorers think they
have seen 1t stretching dim and colo INTO
the North Polar seas, but so far as known
no man has ever set foot on its icy wastes
and whether it is peninsula or island OF
only ice is yet to be ascertained. Borup
and Mcmillan are the men who nope 10
learn the secret
The expedition is of greatest Importance
as is indicated by the list Of subscrioers'
among whom are the American Museum
Of Natural History, the American Geo.
graphical Society Yale University Bowdoin
College, General Thomas II. Hubbard, Ad-
miral r. e. Peary. Mrs. c. B. Alexander
Zenas Crane. John +. Thayer, Groton
School, New York Academy of Sciences
Mrs. G. B. French, Harry r. Converse
Andrew G. Weeks, Richard s. Dow Her
bert Austen, Robert p. Simpson, John Lar
kin. T.. w. Clark, l.. H. Greenwood, Paul
Morgan and Theodore Roosevelt. VINO SAID:
ut would be a fine thing for America
II the discovery Of this land could be
placed to our credit as a nation
The expedition VIII be under the auspices
of the American Museum Of Natural
History and the American Geographical
Society, and IL has the backing Of Admiral
Peary
on June 30, 1906 Peary made observations
from the summit OF Cape Thomas II. Hub
bard of the outlines of a snow capped land
that he and mis- Esqumaus had seen few
days before.
Peary Describes New Land.
Peary described the new land as being
I'm longitude 100 west and latitude s. north,
or about one hundred and thirty miles from
Cape Thomas II. Hubbard He named the
new discovery CroCker Land, in honor OF
the late George Crocker, of the Peary
Arctic Club. and said later: THE veriii-
cation of these observations by making a
sufficiently long journey northwestward
from Cape Thomas II. Hubbard seems 10
be the last great geographical problem
left for solution"
DR.. E. O.. Hovey. of the American Mu-
scum Of Natural History, and Herbert l.,
Bridgman. of the Peary Club, have the ar
rangements in charge. Borup and McMil-
Ian will leave Sydney. \. S., on special
steamer about July 20 Whale, walrus
meat and dogs will be collected on the
way UP, winter quarters will be estab-
lished at Bache Peninsula, on Flagler
Bay, and the ship will be sent home.
The middle Of September will find the
explorers sledging to Cape Hubbard and
over the ice to Crocker Two months will
be spent studying the land. messen-
ger will be sent to North Star Bay on
May /, 1913, with news, which will be
brought to the world by a Danish steamer,
Scientific work will be done in Grantland
and a return made to winter quarters in
July. 1918. The supplies will be trans
ferred to Etah. In the summer Of 1914
the polar explorers will go from Whale
Sound east TO the ice cap of Greenland,
the widest portion of the island. A spe-
cisl ship will bring them home in the
autumn of that year.
The explorers will take along three
years provisions. clothing, instruments
for observation, cameras for ordinary and
moving pictures. a power boat and, Of
course. a doctor and cook. The cost of
the trip will be $4,000. and some of the
fund remains to be subscribed.
Borup was graduated from Yale in 1907,
and like Mcmillan, was with Peary when
the admiral discovered the top of the
world.