Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29

New York. Dec. 2S.-Sixteen eX-
ploration expeditions are now in
progress or in contemplation after
four years of inactivity in this line
of scientific research due to the
great war. Most of these enter
prises have been undertaken or
projected since the armistice and
they recall the fact that mother
earth still has important biological,
geological, geological. chronological
and meteorological problems which
are still unsolved.
One of the most important of
these enterprises is the British Ant
arctic expedition, headed by Com
mander John Lachlan Cope, F. r.
G. s., formerly of the British navy.
1t is financed for $750,000, includes
five ships, 1875 men, several air.
planes and extensive wireless APP
paratus. The undertaking is TO
require five years, and its objects
are the circumnavigation of the
Antarctic sea, a dash to the South
Pole, the locating of new whaling
grounds, and the discovery of
supposedly rich gold, silver, coal
ana ruby lltluS.
Captain Road Amundsen, who
discovered the South Pole in 1911,
left Nome, Alaska, last August in
an attempt to reach the North
Pole. His ship, the Maud, had al
ready spent 10 months in the Arc
tic, north of Asia and Europe, and
had successfully made the north
east passage. He expected the
Maud to be locked in the icepack
and to drift toward the pole when
the Arctic winter ended. In nego-
tiating his way to Nome he was
frequently competed to blast a
path through the ice. Captain
Amundsen was last heard of off
East Cape about 40 miles north
west of Nome in the Boring straits.
The explorer, on account of nigh
wages and scarcity of men, was
handicapped by lack Of help, his
only companions being three sailors
and an Eskimo cook.
The other interesting expeditions
projected or nof under way are as
follows:
Sibera-Captain Axel Landmark
and Captain John Vatney, in So
foot power boat are on a 1000
mile voyage to the Kolyma river,
using a primitive chart made in
1878 by Nordenskjold, Swedish
explorer on his voyage from Nor
way to Japan via the Arctic ocean.
Greenland = Knud Rasmussen,
Danish explorer, who returned
from the east coast late in 1913,
after studying Eskimo tribes, is
preparing for another expedition of
five years duration. LANCE Koch,
another Dane, is planning a scien-
tific survey of North Greenland,
his main purpose being to estab-
lish Danish sovereignty in that
territory.
Africa-Four expeditions are in
progress, namely, the Mackie Eth
biological expedition to Central At
RIGA for the purpose of studying
the Bahima, one of the chief pas
toral tribes of Ankole, a district
west of Uganda; the British natur-
al history museum; expeditions to
the west coast and the Jeb- Maria
mountains the Duke of the Abruz-
zis effort to find the source" OF
the Webb Shebeli river, which
flows from Abyssinia through ltal-
ian Somaliland into the indian
ocean and the chronological tour
of the Belgian portion of Tangan-
yika and the Eastern Congo, by
r. A. Barns, who explored the
Ituri and Semliki forest, finding
a strange race of pygmy savages
as well as gathering a wonderful
collection of moths and butterflies.
Baffin Land-Donald B. Mac
MILAN, who was with Peary, plans
to start next year to explore one
of the richest fields in the Far
North. He expects to establish
camp 700 miles south of Etah in
northwest Greenland, where his
Croker land expedition passed
four winters. He will attempt to
circumnavigate Baffin Land and
penetrate 1900 miles of its west
ern coast.
Nova Zembia-Dr. Olaf Holte-
dahl of Christiania university, is
organizing a Northwestern Natural
Science and Geological expedition
to this country and plans to start
next summer.
Mexico-Professor Emelio Cd
dome. a famous Neapolitan seis-
mologist, representing the Italian
government, is now studying the
earthquake situation in Mexico by
means of his 'inerviameter,' an
invention by which he is able to
measure both motion and energy.
The Amazon = Explorat of
this great river is to be under +.
taken next year by large party Of
American scientists, headed by DR. !
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