The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-30
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provisions tested by Prof. Torup of the physio.
iogcal laboratory OF the University of Chrstiania
win the explorer will be Capt. Oskar Visiting
saihhg master. who stood at his side ION" the
o'uth role and G.. Oonkin, engineer Six 81.
oeriah natives who Joined the Maud in 1920 will
be In the crew
c"P.aih Amundsen expects to strike immedl.
a'e'v INT" the outward or northern drift of the
ice as II leaves Boring sea in the spring breakup
ano TO swing with the northeasterly current dur.
Ing the summer
PROVISIONS for seven years will be taken though
'ne expedition figures getting through inside
of five years.
Just by way of reminder that getting to the
North role even with alrplane and radio and all
nouern improvements still has Its incidental haz-
ards ana thrills, Amundsen's big flyer had TO
make forced landing In PENNSYLVANIA the other
DAY. Amundsen was In It, but none OF the adyen.
'urers was injured and the machine was only
signify damaged However as reminder the
forced landing was success
or course forced landing In PENNSYLVANIA IA
quite different thing from forced landing on
the Ice In arctic weather and far from ciyliza
tlon So there possibilities In arctic fyinc
that Will keep the world interested in the prog.
ress of the Maud and her aviators
There are even those who think that the mr.
tempt to fly to the pole presents of the most
dangerous expeditions ever attempted by man
ana that It's successful accomplishment will put a
great lFalner III the nat or aeronautiCS.
wouldn't 1t be n queer thing If Amundseu
shontd 20 lying some day from the Maud and
should see Stefansson crawling along by dog-sled
ON the ice below him?
And StefanSSon. hearing the irone Of on mir
ship propeller should look up from his sled on
the ice and see AmundseL far in the air ohova
hm2
Capt. Roald Amundsen has long been promi
ncnt figure in polar eNporation-so long thar no
~ a. PASf hE-
of this expedition
He was born in 1872 at BorJe Norway He ra
cetved public school education and became n
sailor AT nm early age.
lie member OF the Belgica Antarctic o.,
petition OF 1879.
On his return he planned an expedition for Tho
discovery of the Northwest passage and the 1oca
ton OF the magnetic pole tie purchased s,a
outttted the schooner Gjoa He sailed June ia
1903. from Chrtstiania The expedition was both
Important and successful. He located the mag.
uetic pole near Bootha Felix the extreme north
end Of the North American continent He ryos
the first 10 make the passage from Furona -
Alaska which he reached early in December 1ao7
AmundSep then turned his attention 10 the Ant,
arctic. Sir T. H. Shackletou in the Nif,rod no.,
reached point Ill miles from the South Pol,
January ., 1909 In 1910 three expeditions st,rt-
ed in search of the South Pole: Amundsen IN 81,
Fran; Capt. Robert F. Scott (Great Britain, in
the Terra Nova. and Capt Wilhelm Fucb,ar &C.
many in the Deutschland little lofsr ~
Douglas Mawson sailed in the Aurora from VOL,
and Captain ShiraSe in the kalnan Naru ,-,r,
Yokohama. 4
The Fran was the first 10 report. She sr-,r,,
AZ Hobart, Tasmania, March Z 1912 She b-,.,
the news that December II, 1911. Captain Anna
sen ana four men had attained the South poi
and had remained there four days