New Britain herald., 1925-06-01

Should this home be discovered 1t will open up virgin field for an lm- portant ornithological study. No danger of the planes collldlng with great flocks Of frightened birds Is anticipated, since similar geese breeding in islands north of Siberia lose thelr' power of flight hecalise of molting during the nesting sea- son.
 Flowers and Butterflies Abound
 For delightful summer climate a person would not go to the seashore Of Baffin island, but inland. Cur rents bearing icebergs and chilled by melting ice make the coast cool and damp. Inland within the shel- ter of the rocks, the sun beats down for long hours Of the Arctic day. Brilliant flowers blossom, butterflies enliven the warmed rocks, and even the pestlferous summer flies lrritate modern explorers just as much as they did Frobisher.
 Like the Americas, Baffin island takes its name not from it's dlscov- erer, but from q later explorer, Will liam Baffin. Baffln never led an eX- pedition to it's shores, but his scien- tifc observations made as pilot on three important ventures into the northwest earned him the honor Of having the great island. as well as the big bay between North Green land and Baffin island, named after him. His most remarkable voyage was with Robert Bylot, ship master, through Davis strait, now the high road to North Greenland, and into Baffin bay. which had never been seen by white men before.
 At the top of the bay Baffin down the great decIinaton of the compass, the greatest discovered up 10 that time. Three merchant ad- venturers of London's ralto, who sent this expedition and many oth- CTS to plant the BHitlsh flag in new soil, are memorialized in guideposts to the Arctic left by this expedition: Lancaster sound, for Sir James Lam caster, boundary 10 Baffin island on the northwest: Jones sound, farther north, for Sir Francis Jones, and Smith sound. on which Etah lies. for Sir Thomas Smith.
 A Land of Many Parts
 "Baffin island is virtually a land of many lands, Within it's shores are Penny Land Cumberland, Hopp- ner land, Greenwood land. Cockburn land, Fox land, Prince William land, Milne land and Meta 1ncognita. So sprawled out is the island with points and promonotories that succession of explorers discovered various parts independently. With the wish father to the thouht, they christened their find a land Later exploration has tied all these di- verse lands intS one island, Baffin island.
 Tt is easy to guess that Meta In- cognita, the odd name for southern most Baffin island. is the little joke of Queen Elizabeth, for she be- slowed it. Discoveries were as com man as rain In her age, when civ ilization was first going into high bodies assured the wine growers of and to the Rrussian diet to erect gear. Land bodies sprang up on maps like mushrooms. Queen Bess' was bored, perhaps, when the caparisoned and ceurtly Frobisher sought audience to lay his latest find at her feet.
 What manner of land is this?' she probably asked.
 With an explorers pride of dis coyery he undoubtedly told with fervor of the 'mountaynes in most parts covered with snow the ab- sence of trees. and the handful Of Eskimo inhabitants. Would her gracious majesty choose to give a name to this new-found land? Her majesty would. There must have been a twinkle in the royal eyes as she named it Meta Incognita, mean ing beyond the unknown.'
 But Queen Elizabeth's joke is still good, and not until the. U. s. navy airplanes have surveyed 1t will Baffin islandscease to be beyond the unknown .u..