Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-10-24

prepared Wy shs National Geographic So
ciety, Washington. d. Co
Adventurous souls sometimes de
plore the supposed fact that there are
no more worlds for exploration to con-
quer. But unknown things behind the
known ages-the unexplored and little
known regions of the earth-are
reckoning with that same force thae
drove Lief Ericsson to America ana
Vascc da CANA around the Cape Ct
Good Hope and Captain Cook to tire
sleepy, sunny islands of the South KNa-
cific
On our own North American con-
tinent there are places on the map
which must necessarily remain prac-
tically blank, and many others whose
uneharted topographic features are the
products of vague reports and fertile
Imagination. TO the east of Hudson
bay lies a peninsula shaped like the
head of woman her high pompadour
towering off in the direction of the
Arctic ocean. 1t remains as much an
enigma today as the eternal feminine
has the reputation Of being. Its west
ward flowing rivers and village or
two along its outward fringes are
named, but it's vast interior still offers
the lure of hidden places. We call 1t
tue Ungava peninsula Numerous other
spaces on the Labrador peninsula are
practically unknown crf the few beaten
trails.
The northern portion Of Keewatin
province, wlsere the Arctic circle passes
between HUDSON bay and the various
bays and inless about the islands of
the Canadian arctic, remains as I'M
Lined by Topographic symbols as
baby's brow. Fran Great Slave lake
eastward to Dubawns river and lake
aud northward from Lake Athabasca,
there lies a vast arSk on which most
maps show rivers and lakes which
can only be outlined in the most n.y.
pothetical fashion.
One of the eight great river sys-
TENS of the earth and the second
greatest system on the North Ameri-
can continent drains an area about
which we are almost entirely ignor-
ant. The geological survey Of Can
ada has been sending exploring par
ties into the Mackenzie river country,
bat the work has as yet been neces-
sarily confined to the principal water
nutes. The stories told by the Mac
Renzie and Ogilvie fs2ges of noun
tains which feed th~ mighty stream
are closed books. There are about
10000 square miles Of water area in
the vicinity of the r-Ter, much of
which is still unemployed and I'M
mapped. Portions OK SHe Canadian
Rockies in northern British Columbia
are so far as defiant IN resaining their
secrets as the invinci5le Mt Everest.
Sections of our own Alaska may still
call with their awful silence as
strongly to the prospector and pioneer
as the Yukon did in the days Of the
Klondike rush. The Endicott and
Davidson ranges rear undefiled heads
above the surrounding fringe of set
Elements on the Arctic ocean and the
Yukon river.
Little Known AreNs In States.
In the United States proper there
: are no areas which San properly De
termed UNEMPLOYED" There are, how
ever, numerous littte-knowf areas
perhaps traversed onlp once q twice
in our history, and there arr many
areas which have not been SUI yeyed.
About a year ago 1t Eight he~ been
said that the Clay ssirs region of
southeastern Utah was unexplored,
but party of the National Geograph-
ic society did work in the area in the
summer of 1923. The Craters of the
Moon area in Idaho has been adequate
ly described only within the last two
or three years.
In northern Minnesota along the Ca
madam border line there is large
area dotted with lakes about which
gerry little is known. There are also
littfe-known portions of New Mexico
and ARIZONA, particularly where these
states join the southeastern corner OF
Utah in the San Juan country, near
the Chaco Canyon National monu-
ment upon which an expedition OF
the National Geographic society Is
working.
There are sections of southern and
central Nevada which are very sparse
iy populated; and through portions of
northern Wisconsin and Michigan one
must travel with a compass. News
papers have recently reported that an
aerial Photographic expedition is pre-
pairing to picture Systematically the
Olympic peninsula Of Washington,
parts Of which are inaccessible.
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