The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-07-29
MAKING PICTURES
OF FROZEN NORTH
NEW TREASURELAND
Nearly 100000 So. Miles OF
Canadian TreasureIand of
Gold. Oil. Uranium

! WASHINGTON.-The Canadian
North last great frontier of North
America, is having its picture
taken.
Before the end of 1860, airplanes
armed with cameras will complete
the systematic photographing of
the entire face of the vast region,
so rich in possibilities that many
Canadians believe that Horace
Greeley's famous saying should
now be "Go north, young manw
Financed by the Canadian Gov
eminent THE aerial photography
will make possible more detailed
and accurate maps, the National
Geographic Society says. 1t will
also help biologists to hunt min
eral deposits and engineers to To-
cate power lines, railways, and
highways. The photographs will
complete the Portrait of Canada"
being assembled by the National
Air Photo Library at Ottawa.
GrOund Parties Help
While photographers fly over
head, ground parties will criss-
cross Arctic islands whose topo-
graphic details remain largely un-
known.
The air-land survey will be one
of the largest ever undertaken by
a government. The areas involved
lie in the Arctic archipelago, and
the Yukon and Northwest Terri
totes, which together comprise
more than two-fifths of Canada'S
3,850,000 square miles.
The survey program will faciE-
tate expansion of defsense install
lations, if required, and will aid
the north's economic development.
The area already has been made
moer accessible by helicopter and
the nuclear submarine.
The helicopter has made it posi-
BILE for ground surveying party
to cover 80 times more territory In
a day and has proved invaluable
las an Arctic work horse. The nu-
| clear submarine demonstrated its
capability for Arctic work when
the United States Nays Skate
broke through the ice in the north,
but economic planners believe car
go submarines may solve the prob
lem.
Cargo submarines will need de-
tailed knowledge of underwater
areas along the northern coasts.
This year some 60 Canadian
scientists are gathering data about
the Continental Shelf along the
rim of the polar basin north of the
Arctic archipelago. They have
established a base on Ellef Ringnes
Island in the Sverdrup group.
Arctic Oil Sought
Biologists will examine fish and
sea mammal life on the shelf. Geo.
logists and geophysicists will study
the composition on the shelf it
self. Traces of oil We're found last
summer, and a private company is
reported already drilling just 80
miles from the Arctic Ocean.
Other private companies are ex-
ploring for tungsten, lead, zinc,
asbestos, and gold. Experts caution
against the hope of easy riches,
and nothing like the Klondike gold
rush of the late 1905 is expected.
However, the estimated population
of $4,000 in the Yukon and North
crease of about 35 per cent since
west Territories represents an in
1851.
One curious problem faces ex-
plorers in the far north; knowing
where they are. Compasses do not
work north of the Magnetic Pole,
which lies $50 miles south of Ellef
'Ringnes Island. To meet this prob
lem, Canadian scientists are using
the Decca Aircraft Navigation
System by which the pilot or navi-
gator finds his location through
signals from synchronized radio
transmitters.