The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-29
AMUNDSEN TO talk
FROM POLE BY Radio
Explorer Will Have Wire
less Outfits on Ship and
His Two Planes.
READY TO START SOON
Route From Alaska to Nor
way Will Be Charted
From Air.
TEN SINGLE MEN IN CREW
Monoplane With Wheels,
Pontoons and Skis Will Help
Report Currents.
TEN SINGLE MEN IN CREW

in the end-the world may expect 10
get wireless message from him in
about three years describing the view
from the North Pole. The message
may come by telephone.
Capt. Amundsen already has in hand
a radio telegraph outfit capable Of
sending his arctic reports a distance
of 1000 miles. Now he is trying to
find telephone transmitter and re-
ceiver adaptable to the same appara-
tus, so that when his ship the Maud
is locked up in the ice and drifting
slowly from Alaska to Norway across
the Pole he can sit in his wireless
room of an evening and with his own
verse tell scientists how he is faring
and can get from them in return the
gossip OF the world and daily tidings
of his relatives in Norway.
With two airplanes-a big one to
chart the currents Of the air Ice and
ocean, and a little one to scout around
the Maud: with the radio to keep him in
contact with life below the Arctic Circle;
with seven years provisions stored
aboard the Maud for trip that at best
will take from three to five years. Capt.
Amundsen is to set forth on strictly
modern polar exploration.
To Start for Seattle soon.
The discoverer of the South Pole ar
rived here from Norway yesterday on
the Stavangerfjord and will stay In the
Fast a fortnight before going to Seattle.
where the Maud is being overhauled in
preparation for the voyage. which IS to
begin about June /. Lieut.. Oscar Amdal
of the Norwegian naval air force came
with him. Amdal will pilot one OF the
airplanes. The pilot of the other. Lieut..
Irdd Dahl. will go to Seattle from Chris
tiania by way of the Panama Canal.
To-day Capt. Amundsen expects TO go
to Washington, where DR.. II. Y. Sver-
drup. scientist of the expedition, has
been working for two months In prepa-
ration for the polar journey.
Can't Amundsen said yesterday that
he hoped TO be able to communicate
with Washington four times day after
he disappears over the northern horizon.
The messages are TO be sent from the
ship to Nome Alaska, relayed TO st
Paul on the Boring Sea and relayed
from st. Paul to the Government station
AZ Arlington. IT is proposed to equip
both airplanes with wireless. so that
they can communicate at all times with
the supply ship. Amundsen will fly on
the larger plane as an observer
Il hope to make this the browning
achievement of my life." he said.
Chief Object to study Currents.
The object of the expedition. as out
lined when Capt. Amundsen stopped IN
New York in January on his way from
Seattle to Norway. is to obtain complete
meteorological information concerning
The air and ocean currents around ehe
north pole, knowledge OF which and Their
relation to weather conditions would De
invaluable With the help of the air
pIanes Amundsen hopes to chart strip
200 miles wide all the way from ALASKA
to Spitzbergen and TO accomplish in nve
years as much as could be done IN forty
years IL only ship and dog sleds were
used. He is to take only twelve doEs.
getting them in Nome.
The explorer passed yesterday after
noon with John NJ. Larsen, whose al
metal monoplane, the il, established
worlds endurance record of 20 hours ~
minutes and 50 seconds on Long Island
in December last Larsen has onered
this plane to Amundsen. Last year Lar
sen tested IL under polar conditions BY
living to the Arctic Circle and return,
distance OF 5000 miles. He found that
n operated dependably In tempera-
ture OF as degrees below zero, and that
at a height Of $500 feet In the clear
drv air OF the far North he could sec
objects 200 miles away.
Planes Fit for Anything.
mfr Larsen wishes TO equip the mono
plane with pontoons wheels and SKIS,
so that we may land on or take off from
water. land or ice. This seems entirely
feasible.
..The Larsen plane wril operate indie
uendently of the Maud whenever II Is
practicable. II can remain away many
DAVIS and travel many hundreds OF miles.
carrying Photographic equipment. radio.
scientific instruments. fuel and food.
one plane will always stay with the
shin. available for relief work. The
small Ayro scouting plane. an English
machine will be used principally for re-
porting icebergs and fields IL n .nth
of the ship The Maud VIZ Follow as
closely as possible given course OF
between 1000 and 1900 miles from
Nome 70 the North Pole and across 10
Spitzbergen. which we hope 10 reach
in from three 20 five years"
Lieut.. Amdal. the aviator who Is with
Cant. Amundsen here, Is about 20 years
ohl. lie speaks little English, but was
able TO convey the idea In conversation
Mt the Ritz that he considers himself
favored OF fortune. For several weeks
to a lighthouse in the ford. practising
for the Pole. He will go to Central
park. l.. l.. tomorrow and try out the
Larsen machine.
Amtsndsen win take ten men with
him. The commander VIII be Capt
Oskar Whstling and the chief engineer
q. Olonkn. Not a man OF the ten Is
married-so far as Capt. Amundsen
knows.
can't Amundsen reported yesterday
that the two little Eskimo girls whom
hc brought from the North last year
and who were with him In New York In
January have been adopted BY his
r-other and are living near Christania
and "are the happiest children in the
world" The older one Camilla, is learn.
ing fast In school and imparting her
knowledge TO the younger, Cakonita. so
that Cakonita can already count up TO
ten.
Capt. Amundsen said that as America
had progressed so much faster than Eu-
rope In the development Of the wireless
telephone he would have to get expert