ARCTIC HOLIDAY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 144, 31 March 1948, Page 4

ARCTIC HOLIDAY

INVETERATE TRAVELLERS Many a boy has longed for the chance of doing a bit of Arctic exploialion, but few have had the opportunity- . / , ~ ... Commander Douglas Dixon told listeners to the BBC’s programme “In Town To-night” how he made this Arctic dream come true in a camp lot schoolboys on the uninhabiated Norwegian island of Manno. The boys, divided into two watches, elder and younger, had the time of their lives, for the holiday included a nine-day trek to Narvik, from winch the elder boy<* returned exhausted, whilst the younger ones, who had had a fortnight’s cruising and feeding before they set out, were as full as beans on return as they were at the start. Dixon and his wife are inveterate travellers, both on land, where some winters before the war they lived with the Lapps, herding their reindeer and sharing their life, and at sea, where they wander just as widely. After clearing the boys,’ camp they recently sailed across the North Sea. in midwinter, a distinctly hazardous achievement. If possible Commander Dixon wants to take another party of boys to Manno this summer, but nothing definite has yet been arranged.