The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-02-01
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.

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 LachIan Cope, F. r. G. s., for
| merly of the British navy. 1t Is u
nanced for $75O,OO0, 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. Roald 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 i'm 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.
, Ill cd To q
through the ice.
Captain Amundsen was last heard
of off East cape, about ITO 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
i follows:
70 Siberia-Capt Axel Landmark and
Capt. John Vatney, in 50-foot power
boat are on a 4,OOO-mile voyage to
T Kolyma river, using a primitive chart
made in 1873 by NOrdenskjold, Swed-
ish explorer on his voyage from Nor
, way to Japan via the Arctic ocean.
GreenlandI-Knud Rasmussen, Dan
ish explorer, who returned from the
east coast late i'm 1919, after studying
e Eskimo tribes, is preparing for an
a other expedition of five years dura-
g ton. LANCE Koch, another Dane, is
nf
:, Greenland, his main purpose being tC
|; establish Danish sovereignty in that
territory.
Africa-Four expeditions are in prog
e, ress. namely, the Mackie ethnologlca
q expedition to Central Africa for the
IF purpose of studying the Bahima, one
G. of the chief pastoral tribes of An
he kole. a district west of Uganda; the
~ British natural history of museum ex
rs petitions to the west coast and TIT
Jeb- Maria mountains; the duke o.
u Abruzzi's effort to find the sources O.
= the Webb Shebeli river, which flows
from Abyssinia through Italian SOmall
90 land into the Indian ocean, and TIT
H. chronological tour Of the Belgian por
r ton of Tanganyika and the easter
of Congo, by Z. A. Barns, who explored
n, the Ituri and Semliki forests, findin!
ly a strange race of pigmy savages,
well as gathering wonderful collec
ton of moths and butterflies
Bafin Land-Donald P. Macmillan
ca who was with Admiral Peary plans t
or start next year to explore one OF tn
n richest fields in the far north. Ill
p expects to establish a camp 700 mile
10 south of Etah i'm Northwest Greenland
Tic where his Croker Land eXpeditio
passed four winters. He will atteml
to circumnavigate Baffin Land an
av penetrate 1900 miles of its wester
ty coast.
of Nova Zembla-Dr Olaf HOltedahl g
to Christiania university is organizing
ers northwestern natural science and g
illogical expedition to this country an
ice plans to start next summer.
y; Mexico-Prof. Emelio Oddone,
1r- famous NeapOlitan seismologist, repr'
H. senting the Italian government, is no
he studying the earthquake situation
of Mexico by means Of his "inervlan
eter." an invention by which he is alb
to measure both motion and energ
10 Will Explore Amazon.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF tn
Tue great river to be undertaken by lars
80. party of American scientists, heade
tho by DR.. Henry H. Rusby Of Column
university. The party expects to lea'
early in January and to traverse mo
Ethan 1000 miles of almost virgin lar
in the upper reaches of the river basi
. DIR. Rusby is to be accompanied Dy u
tbe David Starr Jordan, president OF L
ion land Stanford, Jr. university ana I
lee Carl n. Eingemann of the Universe
of Indiana, who are to study fish al
nee reptiles: DR.. Ruthven OF the Univel
8 fly of Michigan, who is to study frof
one ana Dr Edward KrQmers Of the UI