The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-29
(By Associated Press.l

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NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Sixteen ex-
gress or in contemplation after four
years of inactivity in this line of scien-
tific research due to the great war.
Most of these enterprises have been
undertaken or projected since the
armistice and they recall the fact that
Mother Earth still has important bio
logical, geological, geological. ethno-
logical and meteorological problems
which are still unsolved
One Of the most important OF these
enterprises is the British Antarctic
expedition, headed by Commander
John Lachlan Cope F. r. G. S.. for
merly of the British navy. 1t is fl
nanced for s750.000, includes five
ships, 1875 men, several airplanes and
extensive wireless apparatus. The
undertaking Is to require five years
and its objects are the circumnaviga-
ton 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 and
ruby fields. 81 60 -
Captain Roald Amundsen, who dis
covered the South Pole jn 1911. left
Nome, Alaska, last August in an at
tempt to reach the North Pole. His
ship, the Maud, had already spent 10
months in the Arctic, north of Asia
and Europe, and had successfully
made the Northeast passage. He ex-
pected the Maud to be locked in the
icepack and to drift toward the Pole
when the Arctic winter ended.
In negotiating his way to Nome he
was frequently compelled to blast a
path through the ice. Captain Amund-
sen was last heard of off East Cape,
10 miles northwest of Nome in the
Rering Straits The explorer, on &C
count of high wages and scarcity Of
men. was handicapped by lack OF help,
his only companions being three sail
ors and an Eskimo cook.
Other Expeditions.
The other interesting expeditions
projected or now under way are as
follows:
Siberia-Captain Axel Landmark
and Captain John Vatney, in a 50-foot
power boat are on a 4,000-mile voyage
TO the Kolyma river, using primitive
chart made in 1873 by Nordenskjold, a
Swedish explorer on his voyage from
Norway to Japan via the Arctic Ocean.
Greenland-Knud Rasmussen, Dan
ish explorer, who returned from the
East coast late in 1919. after studying
Eskimo tribes, is preparing for anoth-
er expedition of five years duration
Lange Koch, another Dane, is planning
a scientific survey of North Green
land, his main purpose being to es
tablish Danish sovereignty in that ter,
ritory.
AFRICA-Four expeditions are in
progress, namely, the Mackie Ethno
logical expedition to Central Africa
for the purpose of studying the Ba
hima. one of the chief pastoral tribes
of Ankole, a district west of Uganda
the British Natural History Museum
expedition to the West Coast and the
Jeb-Maria mountains: the Duke Of Alb
ruzzi's effort to find the sources OF
the Webb Shebeli river, which flows
from Abyssinia through Italian Samo
aliand into the Indian Ocean nd the
chronological tour of the Belgian por
ton of Tanganyika and the Eastern
Congo. by T. A. Barns. who explored
the Tturi and Semliki forests, finding
a strange race of pygmy savages as
we'll as gathering a wonderful collec
ton of moths and butterflies.
Enters Far North
BAFFIN LAND-Donald B. MacMil
Ian, who was with Peary, plans to star:
next year to explore one of the rich