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provisions tested by Prof. Torup of the physio.
logical laboratory of the University of Chrisanla.
With the explorer will be Capt. Oskar Visiting.
sailing master, who stood at his side "on" the
South Pole, and G. Olonkin. engineer. Six 81.
berian natives who joined the Maud In 1920 will
be In the crew.
captain Amundsen expects to strike imlnedi-
atey Int" the outward or northern drift Of the
Ice as 1t leaves Bering sea in the spring break-up
ana to swing with the northeasterly current dur
ing the summer
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 arpune and radio and all
modern improvements still has its incidental haz.
ards and thrills, Amundsen's big flyer had to
make forced landing in Pennsylvania the other
day. Amnndsen was in It, but none of the adven.
tuters was injured and the machine was only
slightly damaged. However. MS reminder the
forced landing was n success.
OF course Il forced landing in PENNSYLVANIA IL
quite different thing from forced landing on
the Ice In arctic weather and far from Civza.
tion. So there are possibilities in arctic flying
that Will keep the world interested in the prog.
ress Of the Maud and her aviators.
There are even those who think that the at.
tempt to fly to the pole presents one Of the most
dangerous expeditions ever attempted by man
and that It's successful accomplishment will put u
great feather In the hat Of aeronautics.
Wouldn't II be queer thing If Amundsen
should 20 flying some day from the Maud and
should see Stefansson crawling along by dos.sed
on the Ice below him?
And Stefansson, hearing the drone of nm air.
ship propeller should look up from his sled on
tha fsa nd Inn fur In tin nir ubn
him?
Capt Roald Amundsen has long been proml.
ncnt figure in polar exploration-so long that he
has the right to rest on his laurels at the end
of this expedition.
lie was born In 1872 at Borje Norway. He re-
ceived a public school education and became a
sailor ut nm early age.
He was member Of the Belgica Antarctic ex.
pedtion of 1879.
On his return he planned an expedition for the
discovery of the Northwest passage and the loca.
ton of the magnetic pole He purchased and
QUILTED the schooner Gjoa. He sailed June lG
1903 from Christania The expedition was both
important and successful. He located the mag.
netic pole near Boola Felix, the extreme north
end of the North American continent He was
the first to make the passage from Europe 10
Aaska which he reached early In December, 1906
Amundsen then turned his attention to the Ant.
arctic. Sir Il. II. Shackleton in the Nimrod had
reached u point III miles from the South Pole
January 0. 1900. In 1910 three expeditions start.
ed In search Of the South Pole Amundsen in the
Fran; Capt Robert F. Scott (Great Brittany In
the Terra Nova, and Capt Wilhelm Filchner tGer.
mnny) In the Deutschland A little later DR..
Douglas Mawson sailed in the Aurora from Wales
und Captain Shirase in the Kanan Aiaru from
Yokohama
The Fran was the first to report She arrived
At Hobart, Tasmania, March Z 1912. She brought
the news that December IA, l011 Captain Amund
sen AMI four men had attained the South Poll
and had remained there four days.