The herald., 1922-07-06
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provisions tested by Prof Torup of the physo-
logical laboratory of the University of Christiana
With the explorer will be Capt OSkar Visiting
sailing master who stood nj his side "On' the
South Pole, and q. Olonkin. engineer. Six 81.
berian natives who joined the Maud in 1920 will
be in the crew
Captain Amundsen expects to strike immedi.
ately into the outward or northern drift of the
ice as II leaves Boring in the spring breakup,
and 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 airplane and radio and all
modern Improvements still has its incidental haz.
ards and thrills, AmundSen'S big flyer had 10
make Il forced landing in PENNSYLVANIA the other
day Amundsen in it, but none of the adven.
tuIers was Injured and the machine was only
slightly damaged. However. as a reminder the
forced landing was success
OF course forced landing in PENNSYLVANIA is
quite different thing from a forced landing on
the ice in arctic weather and far from civiliZa-
ton. 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 10 the pole presents of the most
dangerous expeditions ever attempted by man
great feather in the hat of aeronautics
Wouldn't ii be queer thing if AmundSen
should go flying some day from the Maud and
should see StefansSon crawling along by dOg-sled
the ice below him?
And Stefansson, hearing the drone of an air
ship propeller. should look up from his sled on
the ice and see AmundseI far in the air above
him?
Capt Roal6 Amundsen has long been a promi-
nent figure in polar exploration-sO long that he
has the right to rest on his laurels at the end
of this expedition.
He was born in 1872 at BOrje, Norway. He re-
ceived a public school education and became a
sailor at an early age.
He was a member of the Belgica Antarctic ex-
petition 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 16.
1903 from ChrStiania. The expedition was both
important and successful. He located the mag
netic pole near BOOtha Felix the extreme north
end of the North American continent. He was
the first TO make the passage from Europe to
Alaska, which he reached early in December 1905.
AmunGsen then turned his attention to the Ant
arctic. Sir f. III. ShacketOn in the Nimrod had
reached u point III miles from the South Pole
January g. 1909. 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 Neva and Capt Wilhelm Filchner Ger
many in the Deutschland. A little later Dr.
Douglas MawsOn sailed in the Aurora from Wales
and Captain Shirase in the Kanan Maru from
Yokohama
The Fran was the first TO report She arrived
at Hobart, Tasmania, March-7 1872 She brought
the news that December II. 1911, Captain Amund-
sen and four men had attained the South Pole
and had remained there four days.