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provisions, tested by Prof Torup of the physo.
logical laboratory of the University of Chrlstiana
With the explorer will be Capt. Oskar Visiting
sailing master, who stood at his side ION" the
south Pole, and G. Olonkin engineer. Six ST.
berfan natives who Joined the Maud in 1920 will
be In the crew
Captain Amundsen expects to strike immadi.
atey into the outward or northern drift of the
Ice as II leaves Bering 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 ana thrills, Amundsen's big flyer had to
make forced landing in Pennsylvania the other
day. Amnndsen was In It, but none Of the adven-
turers 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 civilian
ton. So there 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 Mt
tempt to fly to the pole presents one of the mos,
dangerous expeditions ever attempted by mar
and that its successful accomplishment will put
great feather in the hat of aeronautlcs.
Wouldn't 1t be queer thing II Amundser
should go flying some day from the Maud ant
should sec StefanssOn crawling along by dogsle(
on the Ice below him?
And Stefunsson hearing the lrone of an air
ship propeller. should look up from his sled or
the Ice and see AmundseE far In the air above
him?
Capt Roald Amundsen has long been promi
nent figure in polar exploration-so long that ht
has the right to rest on his laurels at the enc
of this expedition.
He was born in 1872 at Borje, Norway. He re
ceived Il public school education and became 6
sailor at nn early age.
He was member of the Belgca Antarctic ex
peditiOn of 1879.
On his return he planned an expedition for thu
discovery of the Northwest passage and the loca
ton of the magnetic pole. He purchased ant
outitted the schooner Gjoa. He sailed June 16
1903, from Chrlstiania The expedition was botf
important and successful. He located the mag
netic pole Boothia Felix, the extreme nortl
end Of the North American continent He wn
the first to make the passage from Europe II
Alaska, which he reached early in December. 1905
Amundsen then turned his attention to the Ant
arctic. Sir +. Fl. Shacketon in the Nimrod ha,
reached II point Ill miles from the South Pol,
January 8, 1909. In 1910 three expeditions start
ed in search of the South Pole: Amundsen in tn,
Fran; Capt. Robert f. Scott (Great Brittany ii
the Terra Nova, and Capt. Wilhelm Filchner (Ger
many) in the Deutschland. little later DR.
Douglas Mawson sailed In the Aurora from Wale
and Captain Shrase in the Kainan Maru from
Yokohama.
The Fran was the first to report. She arrived
at Hobart Tasmania, March Z, 1912 She brough
the news that December IA. 1911, Captain Amund
sen and four men had attained the South Pol
and had remained there four days