The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-12-25
AERIAL EXPEDITION
TO THE NORTH POLE
10 BE Led by Capt. Bartlett, Noted
Explorer
TO SURVEY ARCTIC REGION
Also to Explore Upper Air and the
Bottom of the Polar
Basin.

Basin.
New York, Dec 22.-An .expcdtior
to be led by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett,
noted explorer, will be sent to the
Polar regions next June to survey the
North Pole by airplane, according to
an announcement here tonight by the
Aero Club of America. The plan, it
was said, was conceived by Rear Adj
miral Peary, discovercr of the pole.
| The purpose of the expedition,
which, it was said, would be the most
completely equipped ever sent out,
will be to "explore, survey and photo
graph the uneXplorcd parts of the
Arctic regions and establish the exist
ence or non-eXistcnce Of land or lands
IN that region" 1t is also intended
according to the announcement, "to
explore the upper air and the bottom
of the Polar Basin"
Results of inestimable value to the
United States and to science will sure
~ be obtained from this expedition"
sald the announcement, which added
that the club would raise $25O,OOO to
finance the trip.
Big Task Ahead.
"The North Pole has been discover.
ed, but the major part Of the work
still remains to be donc," the an
nouncement states. "Both Admira |
Pear2 and Capt. Bartlett want to uo
a great deal of scientific research in
the Polar Basin, of which over ,oOO,-
000 square miles remain unexplored,
and they would want to have lab
oratorT on the ship, where the fora
and fauna from the ocean bottom will
be kept until the return of the ex
pedltlon. Little or no data has been
obtained from the bottom of the
Polar Basin and no meteorological
surveys have been made in the Polar
region"
Asserting that (with tise coopera-
ton of the beading geographical and
scientific bodies assurcd) it is plann-
ed to have the expedition leave the
United States next June, the an
nouncemen1 continued:
Six Weeks Fair Weather.
There are slX weeks Lf fair wealth
er in July and August, when even IN
the Polar regions 1t is seldom lower
than TO degrees above zero. The plans
are to have ship go to Etah, abnut
600 miles from the North Pole, in
June, when the ice is sufficiently brr,ll-
en- to permit the ship to cross Mel
vile Bay. The ship would carry a
large seapiane or land arplane for
the final flight across the top Of the
earth and for. exploration Of the un-
explored Polar regions as well as
smaller planes for the scouting fights.
Base at Etah.
Immediately upon arrival at 'Etah
a base would be established while
waiting FOR the ice to break up furth-
>cr north to permit the ship to 90 as
far as Cape Columbia; the small sea-
planes would fly W Cape Columbia
and establish base there for the
large plane which is to be used for the
flight across the top of the world,
from Cape Columbia on the American
side, over the pole, to Cape Chclyus-
kin on the Siberian side and for ey-
ploration over long distances.
"For the six weeks after the mid
die of July, when the weather condi-
tions are best for flying in the Polar
regions, the large planes as we'll as
the small planes will be put into ser
vice and the important work of the
expcdition will be done"
Speedy Methods.
Asserting that only onc-scvcnth of
the carth's surface has been accurate
| ly mapped for the rough sketches, Of
ficlals Of the club stated Ihat by use
of airplanes it would be possible to do
IN twenty years what would require
200 years by usual methods
The committee, which after two
years Of study, recommended that the
club finance the expedition, comprises
Admiral Peary, Alan r. 1Iawley,
Henry a. Wise Wood, Henry Wood
house, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske,
John Hays Hammond, Jr, Rear Admi-
raj William N. Little, u. S. NJ; Prof. |
Charles l.. Poor, Col. f.. Lester Jones,
U. 5. A.; Charles jerome Edwards, |
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