Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-03-15
Norwegian Explorer Relates Ms
Experiences During Voy- !.
age Of Discovery. '.'...'
REACHED His GOAL DEG: II
Remained at southernmost Point
Three Days Taking Series Of,
Observations.
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Hobart, Tasmania. March 8, 11:2
q: m.-on the 10th Of February 1911
| re commenced to work our wav;ss - - =
.r. .'sta from that day to The
18th of April estsb.lsu4-5 shree de
pots, which in al contained a guam
tity OF provisions of about 500 kllos
The ground and the state Of tn
barrier were of the best, AspecfaI!
we'll adapted to driving with dogs: Or
Feb. Is we had thus travelled abou!
100 kiiometers. 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 We
heard that her smart captain had sue
ceeded in sailing her further south
and there hosting the colors of his
country, a glorious moment for him
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 depots
enough for ourselves and 10 dogs
eight dog houses, combination OF
cents and snow huts, were built.
The sun left us on the 22nd of April
kc
later. The winter was spent In chang.
:ng Our whole outfit, which on the de
got 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 seven
sledges, ninety dogs and provisions
for four months started. The
ground was perfect. The temperature
was not bad. The next day it ap-
reared that We had started too early,
's the temperature CT the following
ninrs 30 an! 50 celsius l5S degrees
md i" GcEracs> ,:eiow zero Fahren-
aeit. We agreed on returning and TO
wait fer the arrival Of spring. The
provision We're cached and we re-
turned to the hut. About the middle
# October spring came in earnest.
On Oct. 90 the exploring party start
ed: five men. four sledges, fifty two
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 as
possible, in order to give ourselves
and the dogs a rational training ana
On the 23rd We made our depot in 50
degrees south. We went right ahead
in spite OF the dense fog. On the 31st
we 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 18th
we made the interesting discovery that
the Ross barrier terminated in blight
toward the southeast at S. degrees
south latitude and 1873 degrees west
longitude formed between the south
east mountain range running from
South Victoria Land and range on
the opposite side running in a south
easterly direction.
/ On the 18th we reached 81 degrees,
where We established depot, On the
10th we We're at ST.. degrees. where,
also. We made depot. On the 18th
Of November at zS5. Degrees VIE, ar
rived. at a place where the land and
barrier We're connected rs Z
Here: We made our: head depot, TAX:
ing provisions for sixty days on
sledges and leaving thirty days pro.
visions on the spot.
A DIFFICULT CLIMB.
|. The land under which We lay and
which We now had to attack looked
quite imposing. The nearest SUBMITS
along the barrier had "a height from
2.00D TO 10000 feet, but several 9th.
ers further south We're. $4,000. feet or
more. The next day We began the
climb. .~5>:@ 7 II .$:%
The first day we climbed 1000 feet:
the next day mostly up some small
glaciers, camping at height of 500
feet. The third day We were obliged
to go down on a mighty glacier, "Axel
Heiberg's glacier" which divided the
coast mountains and the mountains
further south. >~ r"~
1t took only four days from the
barrier to get up on the vast inland
plateau. We canped that night at
height of 10000 feet Here We had to
kill twenty-four of our brave compan-
ions and keep eighteen, six. for each
OF our three sledges. We stopped
here four days on. account OF. bad
weather. Tired of this we set out on
the s25th of November. We contin-
ued our march the next day in i q.
syale and dense snow drift and got
our facss badly frozen. We could see
.aotaing. We reached that day 50 de-.
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