The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-02-11
Sixteen Exploration Expeditions
Are Now in Progress or
in Contemplation.
MANY PROBLEMS TO Be SOLVED
Most important Enterprise 10 British
Antarctic Expedition Headed by
Commander John LachIan Cope
--Amundsen 10 Trying for North
Pole.

New York.--Sixteen exploration
expeditions are now In progress or
Ia contemplation after four years OF
inactivity In this line of scientific re-
search due 10 the great war. Most
OF these enterprises have been under
taken or projected since the armtsiice,
and they recall the fact that mother
earth still has important bioiogcni,
geological. geological. chronological and
meteorological problems 10 be solved.
One Of the most important OF these
enterprises Is the British Antarctic
expedition. headed by Commander
John Lachlan Cope. r. II. q. s.. for
merly OF the British navy. II IL H.
nanced for STJO.OOO. includes Ave
ships, i25 men. several airplanes and
extensive wireless apparatus. The
undertaking In 10 require i've years
and Its 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 discos'
cred the south pole In 1911, teft Nome.
Alaska, last August In an attempt 10
reach the north pole. His ship. the
Maud. had already spent nineteen
months In the Arctic. north Ut Asia
and Europe. and had successfully made
the northeast passage. He expected
the Maud 10 be locked In the Ice pack
and to drift toward the pole when
the Arctic winter ended. In negoti,
atlng his way TO Nome he was fire.
quently compelled TO blast path
through the Ice.
Captain Amundsen was last heard
OF of East cupc. 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.
Tile other Interesting expeditions
projected or now under way arc as
follows:
Siberia Capt, Axel Landmark ami
snpt. John vafncy, In Il 5O.foot power
hoat are on n 4.0OO-mile voyage 10
kolyma river, using primitive chart
innde IN 1878 by NordenskJ old. a Swed.
ish explorer on his voyage from Nor
say TO Japan via the Arctic ocean.
northumberland Rasmussen. Dan.
ash explorer. who returned from th,A
cast coast late In 1919, after studying
ESklmo tribes, Is preparing Tor M.
other expedition of five years dura.
sion. Langc Koch, another Dane, In
planning scientific survey OF North
Greenlnna. his main purpose being To
establish Danish sovereignty In that
territory,
Afrtca-~Four expeditions are In prog.
sess. namely the Mackic chronological
expedition To Central Africa for the
purpose Of studying the Bahlma. one
of the chief pastoral tribes OF An
kale. n district west OF Uganda, tho
british natural history of museum ex-
Dcditians 10 the west coast and the
leb.Maria mountains: the duke of
Ahruzxis effort 10 find the sources ~
the Webb Shebeli river, which flows
from Ahyssinln through Italian Son,ali.
land into the lndinn ocean. and the
chronological tour ~ the Relgisn por.
tion Of Tanganyika and the eastern
Congo, by I. A. Barns. Who explored
the liuri and Semllki forests. finding
- strange rnee Of pigmy savages. ~
well as gathering a wonderful coiiee-
lion Of moths and butterflies.
Batiin i.and--Donaid 4. Macmillan.
who was with Admiral pcary plans To