Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-06-23

provisions. tested by Prof Tcrup of the physio-
logical laboratory of the University of Chrstiania
With the explorer will be Capt Oskar Visiting,
sailing master, who stood at his side 'on'' the
South Pole, and G. Olonkin, engineer. Six ST.
berfan natives who joined the Maud i'll 1920 will
be in the crew.
Captain Amundsen expects to strike immed-
ately into the outward northern drift of the
ice as ii leaves Bering sea in the spring breakup,
and to swing with the northeasterly current dur
ing the sumner
Provisions for seven years will be taken. though
the expedition figures on getting through inside
of five years.
Just by way of reminder that getting to the
North Pole even with airplane and radio and all
modern improvements still has its incidental haz-
ards and thrills, Amundsens big flyer had to
make forced landing in Pennsylvania the other
day. Amundsen in it, but none of the adver-
turers waf injured and the machine was only
slightly damaged. However, as a reminder the
forced landing was success.
OF course a forced landing in Pennsylvania is
quite a different thing from forced landing on
the ice liz arctic weather and far from civilza-
ton So there are possibilities in arctic flying
that will Keep the world interested in the prog
ress of thu Maud and her aviators
There are even those who think that the at
tempt to 1ty to the pole presents one OF the most
dangerous expeditions attempted by man
and that is successful accomplishment will put a
great feather in the hat of aeronautics.
Wouldnf it be a queer thing if Amundsen
should go flying some day from the Maud and
should sec Stefansson crawling along by dog-sled
on the ice below him?
And Stefansson hearing the drone of an air
ship propeller should look up from his sled on
the ice an1 see AmundseI far in the air above
him?
Capt. Rtad Amundsen has long been promi-
nent figurs. in polar explOration-so long that he
has the right to rest on his laurels at the end
of this expedition
He was oorn in 1872 at Borje Norway. He re
ceived Yublic school education and became a
sailor at an early age
He was member of the Belgica Antarctic ex-
petition OF 1919
ON his Saturn he planned an expedition for the
discovery Of the Northwest passage and the loca-
ton of tie magnetic pole lie purchased and
outftted tae schooner Gjoa. He sailed June 16,
1903 from Christiana. The expedition was both
imnortant and successful He located the mag
netic pole Boothia Felix, the extreme north
end of thu, North American continent. He was
he first 10 make the passage from Europe to
Alaska which he reached early in December, 1905.
Amundsen then turned his attention to the Ant
arctic Sir e. H. Shackleton in the Nimrod had
reached point III miles from the South Pole
January g. 1909. In 1910 three expeditions start
Cd in search of the South Pole: Amundsen in the
Fran; Capt Robert f. Scott (Great Brittany in
the Terra Nova, and Capt. Wilhelm fichner Ger
many in the Deutschland. A httle later DIR.
Douglas Mawson sailed in the Aurora from Wales
and Cantain Shirase in the Kainan Maru from
Yokohama
The Fran was the first to report. She arrived
at Hobart. Tasmania, March Z, 1912 She brought
the news that December A. 1911, Captain Amund-
sen and four men had attained tAe South Pole
and had remaneA there four days.