The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-28
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 Laehlan 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 to 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. 1t is f.
nanced for $750,000, includes five
ships, 125 men, several airplanes and
extensive wireless apparatus. The
undertaking Is to require five years
and it's 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
| AID to drift toward the pole when
| the Arctic winter ended. In negotiA
atng his way to Nome he was FIRE
| quently compelled to blast path
through the ice.
Captain Amundsen was last heard
of off East cape, about TO 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 Vatney in 50-foot power
boat are on 4,00O-mile voyage to
Kolyma river, using a primitive chart
made in 1878 by Nordenskjold, Swed-
ish explorer on his voyage from Nor
way 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 an.
other expedition of five years dura.
| ton. Lange Koch, another Dane, is
| planning a scientific survey of North
| Greenland, his main purpose being tC
establish Danish sovereignty in that
territory.
Africa-Four expeditions are in prog
ress, namely, the Mackie chronological
expedition to Central Africa for the
Of the chief pastoral tribes Of An
kole, a district west of Uganda; the
British natural history of museum ex
petitions to the west coast and the
Jeb-Maria mountains; the duke Of
Abruzzi's effort to find the sources OF
the Webb Shebeli river, which flows
from Abyssinia through Italian Somali
land into the Indian ocean, and the
chronological tour OF the Belgian por
ton of Tanganyika and the eastern
Congo, by Il. A. Barns. who explored
the Ituri and Semliki forests, findins
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well as gathering wonderful collec
ton of moths and butterflies.
Baffin Land-Donald p. Macmillan
who was with Admiral Peary plans t,