The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-02-19
Sixteen Exploration Expeditions
Are Now in Progress or
in Contemplation.
MANY PROBLEMS TO Be SOLVED
Most important Enterprise Is er's's"
Antarctic Expedition Headed ny
Commander John Lachian Cope
-Amundsen Is Trying for North
Pole

New York.-Sixteen exploration
expeditions are now in progress OF
in contemplation after four years OF
inactivity in this line of sclentihc re-
seaYah due to the great war. Most
Of fRese enterprises have been under
taken or projected since the armls'ice'
ana they recall the fact that mother
Garth still has Important biological
geological, geological. chronological ana
meteorological problems to be solved
One of the most important of these
enterprises is the British Ahtafetic
expedition, headed by COMMANDER
John Lachlan Cope, +. K. q. D.. Tor
merlv of. the British navy. 1t Is u
nonced for $4,000, includes five
sbips 125 men, several airplanes ana
extensive wireless apparatus. Ihe
undertaking is to require hve years
and It's objects are the circumnaVi'
cation of the Antarctic sea, dasl'
! to the south pole, the locating OF ne"
whaling grounds and the discovery
Of supposedly rich gold. silver, coal
and ruby neiuS.
Cant. Roald Amundsen, who discov
ered the south pole in 1911, left Nome
Alaska, last August in an attempt u
reach the porth pole. His SNIP uht
Maud. had already spent nineteei
months In the Arctic, north OF ASS
and Europe, and had successfully ihao'
I tbe northeast passage. He expected
tho Maud TO be locked in the ice paci
and to drift toward the pole whei
the Arctic winter ended. In negoti
atine his way to Nome he was IRE
ouently compelled to blast a pau
through the ice.
CaptaIn Amundsen was last near
of off East cape, about 10 miles norti
west of Nome in the Bering strai
The explorer. on account of high wage
and scarcity of men. was handicappe
nv lack of help. his only companion
being three sailors and an Esklm
cook.
| Other Prospects on Foot.
The other interesting expedition
projected or now under way are
follows:
Siberia-Capt. Axel Landmark an
Can't. John Vatney, in 50-foot powe
boat are ON 4,0OO-mile voyage
/. Kolyma river, using primitive cha
made in 1878 by Nordenskjold. Swe'
,sb explorer on his voyage from No
way to Japan via the Arctic ocean.
: Greenland-Knud Rasmussen, Da
ish explorer, who returned from Il
east coast late In 1919, after studyir
: Eskimo tribes, is preparing for a
I other expedition of five years dur
, fion. LANCE Koch, another Dane,
planning scientific survey of Nor
Greenland, His main purpose being
: establish Danish sovereignty In tn
: territory.
Africa-Four expeditions are In pro
7 ress. namely. the Mackie ethnologic
q expedition to Central Africa for &
e purpose OF studying the Bahima. o
! Of the chief pastoral tribes Of A
kole. district west Of Uganda; t
r British natural history of museum G
peditions to the west coast and I
. Jeb-Maria mountains; the duke
! Abruzzi's effort to find the sources
y the Webb Shebeli river. which flo
from Abyssinia through Italian Soma
r land into the Indian ocean, and I
n chronological tonr OF the Belgian p'
1 ton Of Tanganyika and the caste
d Congo, by T. A. Barns. who explor
d the Ituri and Semliki forests. findi
le a strange race of pigmy sayages.
d well as gathering wonderful coll
ton of moths and butterflies.
Baffin Land-Donald 2. MacMili'
In who was with Admiral Peary plans