New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-24
apt.Amundsen
Drifts to Post
On Bering Sea
Wireless Message From
Anadir Breaks Nineteen
Months Silence Regard
ing Explorers Voyage
May Have Reached Pole
Possible, Says DIR. Hovey,
Norwegian Crossed ssTop
of EARTH in an Ai1-plane

NOME. Alaska, April % (By The AS
ISOLATED Press -Captain Roald Amund-
sen, discoverer of the South Pole. has
arrived at Anadir, a trading post on
the Boring Sea, in Eastern Siberia. &C
cordlng to a wireless message from
Aanadir,. received here last night. The
dispatch gave no details other than
suggesting that the explorer had
reached the village in a ship.
FOR more than nineteen months the
sliences of polar seas have shrouded
the vessel that bore Amundsen and his
shlpmates in their unusual endeavor
to reach the North Pole.
Amundsen's vessel, the Maud, took
on on OH at Dixson Island, in the White
sea ABOUT September l, 1918, and soon
a1ter sailed off to the northeast
through the rapidly freezing Arctic.
the ship as far northward as he could
then to lodge her in the ice and permit
her to be dragged along with the foes.
Amundsen expected to drift east to
the New Siberian Islands IN the Arctic
off Siberia. At the New Siberian
Islands it was believed the drift would
carry him toward, if not across. the
pole. The explorer is reported to have
carried two airplanes. He expected 70
use these if he found the drift would
not carry him across the ''top of the
earth"
Probably Forced Through Strait
Studies Of the Arctic ice had been
made by Amundsen, who believed his
ship would be carried around the north
ern end Of Nova Zembla and thence
eastwardly to the vicinity of the Liakov
Islands, off the delta of the Lena River
on the northern Siberian coast. Here
he believed the ice would be driven to
the northward toward the Pole.
There is some uncertainty as to the
e exS,act. point reached by Amundsen in
Siberia Anadir is not the name of a
town, but of a rives, which rises north
west of Kamchatka and flows eastward
emptying into the Pacific. To reach
tins river by the sea he would have
been forced to 60 through the Boring
Strait, between Siberia and Alaska.
There is a Russian trading post
known as Anadyrsk, located on the
Anadir River, about three hundred
miles from the mouth Of the stream
but Amundsen could not reach it by
vessel. If he should have reached that
town, it seems probable he landed from
| 1iio oilp Oil tuc lOTI!oTn coast OIL the
continent and made the trip southwark
by land.
The mouth Of the Anadir River is
about 5000 miles east of Dixson Island.
Amundsen's purpose was not prima-
rily to reach the North Pole, but to
make scientific observations, take
soundings, study the drift of polar ice
and collect important data as to oceanic
conditions.
Bartlett Fears Some Mishap
Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who COM
manded the Roosevelt on Pearys sue
cessful dash to the North Pole, to-day
expressed fear that something had gone
wrong with the polar expedition of
Captain Amundsen.
Amundsen either has lost his shin or
encountered some other serious mis-
hap, Captain Bartlett said adding that
in the nineteen months the Norwegian
explorer should have reached point
between the North Pole and Cape
Chelsukin, on the northeastern ST.
berian coast, about 700 miles from the
Pole.
Captain Bartlett said he had talked
with the Norwegian explorer here
shortly before he left on his exped-
ton.
ellis ambition was to plant the Nor