Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-29
EXPLORERS NUMEROUS.
6any Expeditions Planned and
Many On Mapped Routes.

Many Expeditions Planned and
Many On Mapped Routes.
BY Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 29.--Sixteen ex-
pioration 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 enterprises
have been undertaken or projected
since the armistice and they recall
the fact that Mother Earth still has
important biological. geological. geo
logical, chronological and meteorolo-
gieal problems which are still un-
solved 80
One OF the most important of
these enterprises is the British Ant
artic expedition. headed by Com
mander John Lachlan Cope. F. r. &.
S.. formerly OF the British navy. 1t
is financed for $750.000 includes five
ships. 20 men. several airplanes and
extensive wireless apparatus. The
undertaking is to- require five years
and its objects are the circumnavi-
cation OF the Antarctic sea, q dash
to the south pole, the locating Of new
whaling grounds, and the discovery
of supposedly rich gold, silver. coal
and ruby fields.
capt. Roald Amundsen. who dis
covered the south pole in 1911, left
Nome, Alaska last August in an at
tempt to reach the north pole. His
ship, the Maud, had already spent
nineteen months in the Attic. north
Of Asia and Europe, and had sue
cessfully made the Northeast Pas
sage. He expected the Maud to BE
looked In the icepack and to drift to-
ward the pole when the Attic winter
ended
In negotiating his way to Nome he
was frequently compelled to blast a
path thru the ice. Captain Amund
sen was last heard of of East Cape,
about 10 miles northwest Of Nome
in the BerinE straits. The explorer.
on, account of high wages and scar
city Of men, was handicapped by lack
of help, his only companions being
three sailors and an Eskimo cook
The other interesting expeditions
projected or now under way are as
follows:
Siberia-Capt. Axel Landmark ana
Capt. John Vatney, In llfty-f foot
power boat are on q 4.G00-mile voy
age to the Kolyma river, using 6.
primitive chart made in 1873 by
Nordenskjold, a. Swedish explorer On
his voyage from Norway to Ja1pan
via the Attic ocean
Greenland-Knud Rasmussen Dan
ish explorer, who returned from
the. east coast late in 1913, after
studying Eskimo tribes, Is preparing
for another expedition of Ave years
duration. Lange Koch, another Dane.
Is planning scientific survey Of
North Greenland. his main purpose
being to establish Danish sovereignty
in that territory.
Africa-Four expeditions are IN
progress, namely, the Mackie ethno-
for the purpose OF studying the Ra-
hima, one Of the chief pastoral tribes
Of Ankole, a district west OF Ugan-
da; the British ,natura! history mt
scum expeditions to the west Goa st
and the job Maria mountains; the
Duke of the AbruzZi's effort ITO find
the sources OF the Webb Shebeli river.
which flows from Abgssinia thru
Italian SomaliIandI into the Indian
ocean and the chronological tour OF
the Belgian portion OF Tanganyika
and the eastern Congo, by T. A
Barns. who explored the Ituri and
| Semliki forests, finding strange
| race Of pygmy savages az well as
gathering a wonderful collection OF
| moths and butterflies.
Baffin I.and-Donaid B. MacMl-
I, Ian. who was with Perry plans to
start next year to explore one OF the
/ richest fields in the far north. He
| expects to establish camp 100 miles
south of Etah in northwest Green
land, where his Croker land expedi-