The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-29
With end of Greatest Crime
Known to History, Science
Again seeks to Carry Civ.
ilizatiOn to Antipodes.
EXPEDITION PLANNED
INTO MANY LANDS
SIBERIA, GREENLAND. FARTHEST
INDIA, DARKEST AFRICA AND
MEXICO, THE MYSTERIOUS. ON
INVESTIGATIONS LIST

New York, Dec. 29.-Sixteen eXp'o-
ration expeditions are now in progress
or In contemplation, after four years
Of inactivity in this line Of scientific
research due 10 the great war. Most
Of these enterprises have been under
taken or projected since the arfristice
and they recall the fact that Mother
i.arth still has important bioloS cal.
zoologicil, geological, chino og.cai ana
meteoroogical problems which are
still unsolved.
One OF the most important Of these
\ enterprises is the British Antarctic
Expedition, headed by Comn'ande.
John Lachlan Core, f. r. G. c.. for
merly of the British navy. 1t is fl
nanced for s75O,OOO, includes five
ships. 125 men. several airplanes and
; extensive wireless apparatus. The
Undertaking is to require FIVE years
Y navigation of the Antarctic Sea, a
dash to the south pole. the locating
: OF new whaling grounds, and the dis
,covery of supposedly rich gold. silver
and ruby fields.
q Captain Roald Amundsen, who d.
4 Powered the south pole in 1911, left
sSome, Alaska, last August IN an at
Tempt TO reach the north pole. II 8
Ship, The Maud, had already spent -
months DIN the Arctic. north of Asia.
and Europe, and had successfully
made the northeast passage. He ex-
pected the Maud TO be locked in the
ice pack and to drift toward the pole
Z when the Arctic winter ended.
. In negotiatin ghis way 10 Nome
= he was frequently compelled to blast
path through the Ice. Captain
Amundsen was last heard Of off Easi
Cape, about 10 miles northwest Of
Nome in the Bering Straits. The ex-
plorer, on account OF high wages and
scarcity Of men. was handicapped by
lack Of help, his only companions be-
ing three sailors and an Eskimo
cook.
The other interesting expeditions
projected or now under way are as
follows:
SIBERIA--Captain Axel Landmark
and Capta.a John Vatney. in CO.
foot power boat are on a 1000 mil.
> voyage TO the Kolyma river. using
primitive chart made in 1873 by
Nordcnskjold, Swedish explorer. on
his voyage from Norway to Japan via
the Arctic Ocean.
GREENLAND-Knui Rasmussen.
Danish explorer. who returned from
the cas-, coas, late In 1919, after study.
ing Eskimo tribes. is preparing for
another expedition OF five years dur
alton. Lange Koch. another Dane. Is
planning scient fic surrey OF North
Greenland. his main purpose being to
establish Danish sovereignty In tina,
territory.
AFRICA--Four expeditions are In
progress, namely the Mackle Ethno-
logical Expedi ion 10 Central Africa,
for the purpose OF study ng the Ba-
hima, one OF tho chief pastoral tribes
of Anko.e, a district west OF Uganda;
the British Natural History Museum
Expeditions to the west coast and The
Abruzzis efforts to find the sources
OF the Webb Shebeli river, which flows
from Abyss!nla through Italian Son.
aiiland into the Indian Ocean. and the
chronological tour OF the Belgium por-
tion OF Tanganyika and the Eastern
Congo. By r. A. Barns. who explored
the Ituri and scmllki forests. finding
strange race OF pygmy savages as
we'll Us guthering a wonderful collcc-
.ion OF moths and butterflies.
BAFTIN LAND-Donald b. Mar-
MILAN. who was with Pcary. plans to
stnr, mex, year 10 explore one OF the
richest fields In the far north. lie
expects to establish "a camp 700 miles
south OF Etah In Northwest Green
land. where his Checker Land Expe-
diifon passed four winters. He viii
attempt TO circumnavigate Baffln
Land and penetrate 1900 miles OF lts
western coast
NOVA zEMBL.A--Dr Olaf Holtedahl
Of Christiania University. In organic.
ing Northwestern Natural Science
and oeologicl Expedition to this
country and plans to start next sum-
mer
MEXrCo--Professo Emclio ojione,
Z a famous Neapolitan seismolosist. rep
resen'ing tho Italian government. Ia
a. er<t..