The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-07-03
POLAR EXPEDITION
OREACH WORLD
THROUGH WIRELESS
Croker Party to Keep.
in Touch With Civ
ilization.
TOEXPLORE LANDS
Party Headed by Peary Lieu
tenant Will Spend Three
Years in Far North.

plore Croker land, the mountainous
tops OF which were seen across polar
NJ by Perry in 1906. Other regions
will be explored southwest of Axel
Heiberg Land and north Of the Parry
Islands.
The expedition is under the auspi-
ces OF the American Museum of Nat
ural History and the American Geo
graphical society, with the co-opera-
ton Of the University of Illinois and
the assistance OF the United States
Navy Department and other Federal
departments as we'll as many edu-
cstional institutions.
The leader Of the party is Donald
b. MacMullan, who accompanied
sPeary on his trip to the North Pole.
After landing at Sydney, the expe-
dition will go as far north as the ice
will permit, procuring on it's way
dogs and sledges and walrus and
whale meat. It will land on the south
side OF Bache Peninsula, Flager Bay,
whore the party will make their head
quarters. A powerful wireless station
will be erected, and here, under the
ideal climatic conditions experiments
will beNconducted in order to solve
the important problem of directing
the Hertzian waves. The coming au-
tumn and winter will be utilized in
5sledging supplies r Ellesmere
Land to Nansen Sound and up to
Cape Thomas Hubbard at the north
end Of Axel Heiberg Land, where the
secondsbase OF supplies will be estab-
lished.
To Examine Croker Land.
With the return OF dawn in 1914
the expedition viii make d dash for
Axel Haiberg Land across the sea ice
to Croker Land, where the party
will divide into three squads. one go
ing northwar1, the second southwest
ward, and the third northwestward
into the interior of Croker Land.
Studies will be carried on in glaci-
err, sea. Ice, tidal observations, sound
ings. and the fauna Of the region.
Late In the spring, before the sea
Ice breaks up. the party will return
to Its base and geographical work
will then be carried on around Files
mere Land and Grant Land. me
main party will return to Crocker
land, II the region proves to be what
ID expected, in the early spring of
1915, for additional exploration. But
Ia case Croker land does not yield
work to the extent expected and 1t
should not seem advisable to return
to It Z second time, the second field
season, In 1915, will be devoted to an
expedition eastward from %Inglefield
Gulf TO the great summit ice cap of
Greenland at It's widest part, the
work experimenting that of Peary
and other explorers.
LINKED to Civilization.
Through the medium OF wireless
t~elegraphy the expedition expects TO
keep In constant communication with
civilization. The wireless outfit car
sSied BY the expedition will be most
complete. "A wireless equipment viii
be installed on the sledges similar to
that In the army. Sending and re-
reiving wireless messages will be
practiced at the headquarters of
Flagler Bay, which is about $50
miles from the pole. The messages
will be relayed through Cape VOL
stenholme. Hudson Straits and from
Port Wilson, Hudson Bay, by the
Canadian government .
Another interesting feature, in au-
dition to the erection of the power
full wireless station at Fagler Bay.
Will be the establishment there of a
seismographic station, and 1t is ex-
pected that earthquake observations
Of scientific value will be made.
Tho expedition is equipped for
three years stay in the polar regions.
With Instruments for making obser-
yations and records in many branch
80 Of science. a powerful motor boat
and = large whale boat are included
IA the equipment, also an apparatus
for taking motion pictures. Most of
the meat supplies will be obtained
BY hunting, the game consisting or
musk OK, caribou. seal, walrus, arc
tic seal, narwhal and ducks.