The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1921-02-18
Sixteen Exploration Expeditions
Are Now In Progress or
in Contemplation.
MANY PROBLEMS TO Be SOLVED
Most important Enterprise Is British
Antarctic Expedition Headed ny
Commander John Lachlan 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 sclentlhc 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 biologichi'
geological, geological, chronological ana
meteorological problems to be solved.
One of the most important OF these
enterprises Is the British Antarctic
expedition, headed by Commander
John Lachlan Cope, II. X. q. s., for
merly of the British navy. 1t Is n
nanced for S750000, includes five
ships, 125 men, several airplanes ana
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 tke 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 lie expected
the Maud to be locked In the Ice pack
and to drift toward the pole when
the Arctic winter ended. In negoti-
at!ng his way to Nome he was fire.
quently compelled to blast a path
through the ice.
Captain Amundsen was last heard
of off East cape, about 10 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.
Sberia--Capt. Axcl Landmark and
Capt. John Natney, In 50-foot power
boat are on 4,00O-mile voyage to
KOlyma river, using primitive chart
made In 1873 by Nordcnskjold, a 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 n 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 Bahima, 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
Abruzzls effort to find the sources of
the Webb Shebei river which flows
from Abysslnia 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. finding
strange race of plgmy savages. as
well as gait. 'ring wonderful collec-
ton of moths and butterflies.
Bafiin Land-Donald Il. Macmillan,
who was with Admiral Peary plans to