The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-01-23
LATEST ADDITION MA, S Szn Aw
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LII ~ man activity, that the so
~ Fl called last word is not
L5GI ~ the final one. When the
u SESI remarkable series OF arc
tic expeditions came to
an end, after years of fruitless search
for the long-lost Sir John Franklin,
the fleet commander, Sir Edward
Beicher write The Last OF the Arc
tic Voyages"
No one was more surprised than
Belcher when McCHntocks search in
the Fox was initiated. and the final
record vas made OF Franklin's death
and Of the discoveries of his ship
mates. And then followed that line
Of heroic American explorations
which opened up the wondrous wa
1erways OF the West Greenland coast
and thus unbarred the hitherto closed
gates to the very pole
In years Just passed. when the stir
ring dispatch came announcing that
Perry had reached the north geo
graphic pole, the acme of his ambi-
tiCus struggles OF a quarter Of cen
fury, the word went round that arc
lie exploration was at an end.
Even that yirlle and indomitaple
descendant OF the Morse Vikings,
Road Amundsen, was deferred from
that arctic voyage on which he had
already started Turning the prov OF
the Fran from Boring strait he sailed
southwark, and. scaling high antarc-
tic peaks with Norwegian ski and dog
drawn siedges. attempted the south
geographic pole.
When the year 1912 opened there
was noted a widespread recurrence of
popular interest in arctic fields of
research, SO that there were no less
than six expeditions initiated, ex-
Guiding those of Russia The Dane,
Koch and the Swiss, de QuarYain,
crossed the Greenland icecap a. diff
ferent points. The German Schroeder
Strauz, found disaster and death in
North Spitzbergen. Meanwhile the
Canadian Stefansson, planned to
reach the hypothetical continent long
forecast by Americans The Ameri-
can, Mcmillan. sought definitely to
outline Croker Land. The French
man, Prayer. re-eXplored that Franz
josef Land which his father was first
to traverse. Amundsen now starts via
Bering strait to drift northwest
ward with the ice foes of the Sibe-
rfan ocean. These all represent what
may be called foreign and idealistic
exploration, as compared with the
russian expeditions, which are do
nestle and economic.
Before describing the discoveries Of
Lieutenant Wilkitzky, the Russian, it
will be well to set forth foreign in
yasions into the Siberian ocean near
est to Nicholas Second Land. First
IN order is the expedition of 1880,
commanded by De Long. which drift
ed northWesteriy from Boring strait
until the Jeanette was crushed by
the ice
Nansen followed in the Fran, adopt
Ing De Longs plan. The drift of the
Fran was practical continuation of
that OF the Jeanette, though no land
WAS seen, and the ship passed into
deep water about $50 miles to the
north OF the new Siberian islands.
The most important addition TO the
photography of the Siberian ocean,
time and means considered, was made
by Capt. Edward Fl. Iohanesen, in the
sailing schooner NordIand. Leaving
Cape. Mouritlus, Nova Zembia, he
round the ocean ice-free. so that he
crossed to Capo Taimur. near Cape
Chelyurskin. On August is, 1873. he
discovered in It degrees AZ minutes
north latitude. So degrees east longi-
tude, an island named Eisamkeit
lonely island). scarcely more than
100 miles to the west of Nicholas Sec
ond Land
Most interesting were the experi-
ences OK Byron A. e. Won Nordensk-
joid, the greatest, all phases of action
and OF knowledge considered, of are
tic explorers. In his unique voyage,
the circumnavigating or Asia, he
reached on August 10, 1878. the north
point OF Asia. Captain Chelyuskin.
which he determined to be in IT de-
grees So minutes north latitude 1O3
degrees II minutes east longitude. AS
ne was the first known visitor to the
cape since it's discovery by Chelyus-
kin by sledge journey in 1912, its
surroundings were carefully noted.
Nordensjold sent his supporting
steamer the Lena, seward to dredge
She was stopped by heavy and very
close ice in about II degrees 40 min
utes north, some IS miles south OF
Nicholas Second Land. to which she
made the nearest approach hitherto
on record.
The discovery OF Nicholas Second
Land is simply al incident in the eco
nomic development of the Russian en-
pire. The general public Is unaware
OF the astounding potential resources
ct arctic Russia It's areas extends
half way around the world-through
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