The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-05
l7 Expeditions on
Scientists Renewing Efforts To Probe Earth's Secrets
 After 4 Years Inactivity.

AfcIlC cAplOTel, anu ulSCOFeieI Ol the blonde Eskimo, and assist him in his preparations for another at- tempted dash to tue North Pole. Knight was with the explorer on his last voyage.
 Seventeen exploration expeditions are now in progress or in contempld- tion after four years of inactivity in this line of scientific research due to the world war.
 Besides Stefansson's expedition, one of the most important of these IS the British Antarctic Expedition, headed by Commander John Lachlan British Navy It is financed for $750, ,000, includes five ships, 125 men several airplanes and extensive wire less apparatus. The undertaking is 1 to take five years and it's objects are the circumnavigation of the Ant arctic Sea, dash to the South Pole, the locating of new whaling ground and the discovery of supposedly rich gold. silver coal and ruby fields Amundsen in Bernp Capt. Roaid Amundsen. who discov- eerd the South Pole in 1911. left Nome, Alaska, last August in an at tempt to reach the North Pole His ship. the Maud. has already spent 19 months in the Arctic. north Of Asia and Europe and has successfully NOVf hnoct poets the Maud to be locked in the icepack and to drift toward the Pole when the Arctic winter ends. in negotiating his way to Nome, he vas frequently compelled to blast path through the. ice Capt. Amundsen was last heard of off East Cape, about 175 miles northwest of Nome in the Boring Straits. The explorer, on account of high wages and the scarcity of men, was handicapped i 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 Landmai k and Capt. John Vatney. in a 50-foot power boat are on a 1000 mile yoy- age to the KOlyma river, using a phi mitive chart made in 1878 by Norien- skiold, a Swedish explorer. on his way from Norway to Japan via the Arctic Ocean.
 Rasmussen Active
 GREENLAND-Knud Rasmussen. Danish explorer. who returned from the East Coast late in 1919 after studying Eskimo tribes. is preparing for another expedition of five years duration. Lang 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- logical Expedition to Central Africa for the purpose of studying the Ba- hima, one of the chief pastoral tribes of Ankole, a district west of Uganda; the British Natural History Museum Expedition to the West Coast and the Jeb-Maria mountains; the Duke of AbruZzis effort to find the sources of the Webi Shebeli river, which flows from Abyssinia through Ital- ian Semalland into the Indian Ocean and the chronological tour of the Bel sian portion of Tanganyika and the Eastern Congo by T A Barnes, who explored the Ituri and Semliki for ests. finding a strange race of pygmy sayages as well as gathering won derful collection of moths and butter flies
 MacMilIan in North
 BAFFIN LAND-Donald MacMll Ian. who was with Peary. plans to start next year to explore one of the richest fields in the Far North He expects to establish d camp 700 miles south of Etah in Northwest ! Greenland where his Crocker Land Expedition passed four winters. He will attempt to circumnavigate Baffin Bay and penetrate 1.500 miles of its western coast,
 NOVA ZEMBLA-Dr. Olaf Holte dahl of Christiania University is or ganzing a Northwestern Natural Sc. ence and Geological Expedition tc this country and plans to start nexl summer.
 MEXICO-Prof. Emilio Oddone famous Naepolitan sesmologist representing the Italian Government is now studying the earthquake situa ! tiOn in Mexico by means of his finer i viameter." an invention by means oI which he is able to measure bon energy and motion.
 ! THE AMAZON-Exploratiou of this great river is to be undertaken nex' year by large party of American scientists. headed by Dr Henry II Rusby of Columbia University. n,
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