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Sixteen Exploration Expeditions
Are Now in Progress or
in Contemplation.
MANY PROBLEMS TO Be SOLVED
Most important Enterprise Is British
Antarctic Expedition Headed by
Commander John LaehIan Cope
--Amundsen Is Trying for North
Pole.

New York.-Sixteen exploration
expeditions are now in progress or
in contemplation after four years OF
Inactivity In this line of scientific re-
search due 10 the great war. Most
OF these enterprises have been under
taken or projected since the armistice,
and they recall the fact that mother
earth still has important biological,
geological, geological, chronological and
meteorological problems TO be solved.
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, It Is f.
nanced for $750.0O0, includes five
ships, 1875 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, dash
to the south pole. the locating OF new
whaling grounds and the discovery
Of supposedly rich gold silver. coal
and ruby fields.
Capt. Road Amundsen, who discov'
cred the south pole in 1911, left Nome,
Alaska, last August In an attempt to
reach the north pole. His ship. the
Maud, had already spent nineteen
months in the Arctic, north Of Asia
and Europe, and had successfully made
the northeast passage. He expected
the Maud to be locked in the Ice pack
and TO drift toward the pole when
the Arctic winter ended. In negoti-
ating his way to Nome he was fire.
quentiy compelled to blast path.
through the Ice.
Captain Amundsen was last heard
of Off East cape. about 40 miles north
west of Nome In the Boring strait.
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 Eskimo
cook.
Other Prospects on Foot
The other Interesting expeditions
projected or now under way are as
follows:
Siberia---Capt Axel Landmark and
Capt. John yatney. in 5O-foot power
boat are on 4.000-mile voyage to
Kolyma river. using a primitive chart
made In 1873 by Nordenskjold, a Swed-
ish explorer on his voyage from Nor
way to japan via the Arctic ocean.
Greenland-Knud Rasmussen, Dam
ssh explorer. who returned from the
east coast late In 1919, after studying
Eskimo tribes, IL preparing for am
other expedition Of five years dura.
ton. Lange Koch, another Dane, Is
planning a scientific survey Of North
Greenland. his main purpose being to
establish Danish sovereignty In that
territory.
Africa-Four expeditions are in prog
ress. namely, the Mackie chronological
expedition to Central Africa for the
purpose of studying the Bahlma. one
of the chief pastoral tribes Of An
kole. district west of Uganda; the
British natural history Of museum -ex-
petitions to the west coast and the
Jeb-Maria mountains; the duke Of
Abruzxi's effort to find the sources OF
the Webb Shebeii river, which flows
from Abyssinia through Italian Somali-
chronological tour OF the Belgian bor-
ton Of Tanganyika and the eastern
Congo. by 7. A. Barns. who explored
the Ituri and Semliki forests. hDding
q strange race Of pigmy savages. as
well as gathering wonderful collec-
ton OF moths and butterflies.
Baffin Land-Donald p. Macmillan.
who was with Admiral Peary plans to