The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
IS EXPLORATIONS
DURING NEXT YEAR
Attempts to Reach North
and South Poles to Be
Undertaken
FOUR EXPEDITIONS
INTO AFRICAN WILDS
British Expedition Hopes to Find Rich
Mineral Fields In Antartic Regions -
Exploration Of Amazon Basin At
tracts Many Experts.


Exploration Of Amazon Basin At
tracts Many. Evnprts
NEW GORk, Dec. 29.-SlNtcen cNplor-
atiou cyneditin,,s are no,r in ,,rooress orr
-..I..: r.. =.
III o''l'''. 'l@'lo'l "'teI Iour years Oh III
a'lIFI} III TINS line Oh sclehtliIc research
due to the great war. Most of these en-
tarDrises have bean moderation ~. Dto-
:-l ; - ..:
JS'0'" 9I''t Ii'e dlHII9CISC anu ticS lc
call the fact that Mother Earth still has
important biological. geological. geological
archaeological nd ,,,,+oo,,, 1o,;o,l ,,,.I,Iar,,s
- -'-'
"i'Nh are SlIh uNSoi'eu'
One of the most important Of these en-
teIpIises is the British Antarctic cyDedi-|
tinu headed br Co,n,ra,,do, T,br T,.b-
lam Conc = II {, ,o1-r,e,I,, IF tho
Dr,tisL nav, II - f,aprod CO... s-T0 609
includes two sbins 10Y mon several air,
I,ianas and evtn,sivn ,,.;,nIaS. or,I,,Is t,,,
!l'Ia rio,t,1i ,d,,',; 49,
and ;ts rbncts oi, tb 60
81 tha Antrtio Uea d.,5b t tba S,',,+
plo tI,. Iat;,. - , who - ,r,,,,,{
and t6n diero[-o,I- If s1,",,"saJj,. IN aaId'
eiI,-a1, coal and 3,,Il,. EoIds 70'~''
C1r,taiD Poaid 4in,,ndsnn who d;soo,,-
orad ne GmutL1 Pole in iQll lar Vono
A.I, I,-+ N,,r,,-+ =, a++,,,4 =
-AI'SAa, "aE Augu5t III an an attempt 10
11T'eI ','e Nj l." olc. LIS io sup me
1i,"" u';U "IIgTN sL9iI 10 iiioI E SL9 III
@ 3 I'oa 81 ,1I' anu
passage He expected the Maud to he
locked in the icepacl, and to drift toward
ny Vie E' t: ~ A'C'tS - 80 49,
c III IieS''I"1IIs IL Wy ~ -noIie Ne " a.
IIcI"eIIIN NoihPc"C' I" oI"9I !" P"'l
last heard of off East Cape about 10
miles northwest Of Nome in the Berin2
Straits The explorer, on account OF
high wages and scarcity of men, was
handicapped by lack OF help. his only
companions being three sailors and an Es-
kimo cook
The other interesting expeditions pa
icctcd or now under way are as follows:
Siberia CAPTAIN Ayel Landmark and
Captain John Natney. in q j0-f00t power
boat are ON a 40J0-mile voyage TO the
Kolyma river, using Il primitive chart
made in 1878 bv Nordcnskiold a Swedish
cvpiorer on his voyage from Norway to
Juuau via the Arctic ocean.
Greenlaud-Knud Rasmussen. Danish
explorer. who returned from the east
coast late in 1919, after studying Eskimo
tribes. IS prppariug for another expedition
of FIVE years duration. Lange Koch. an
other Dane, is planning a scientific survey
ing to establish Danish sovereignty in
that territory.
Afrca-Four pNupditious are in prog
rcss namely, the Nacke chronological eN-
rcdition to Central Africa for the pur-
pose of studying the Babma, one Of the
chief pastoral tribes Of Ankolr. district
west of Ugrnda: the British Natural His
tory Museum evDcditious to the west
coast and the Jeh-Maria mountains the
duke of the Abruzzi's effort to find The
sources of the Webb ShebcH river. which
flows from Abvssnia through Italian
SomalIand into the Indian ocean and the
eutomologic.l tour . the Belgian portion
bI dIlEbH\ItI ana INt Eastern NpllRif-
by T. A. Euus. who explored the Ituri