ABSENCE OF AMUNDSEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 7

ABSENCE OF AMUNDSEN.

WAS THERE A SNOWSTORM? WHAT THE TRAPPERS SAEO. LOXDOX. .Tune 7. The following copyright wireless message from the Norwegian transport Farm indicates that Captain Roald Amundsen and his five companions on the flight to the North Pole may have run into a snowstorm soon after they started on their flight, notwithstanding the meteorologists' forecast of fine weather. The message was dispatched from Danes Island, north of Spitsbergen, on Friday. It said: — "The last few days have seen cloudy weather, with the temperature above freezing point. Spring has commenced and the snow is melting, but, at the same time, a thick polar fog prevails. "Some trappers who were wintering to the north, on Norse Island, arrived here yesterday. They related that on May 21, when the polar flight started under a bright sky from King's Bay. the conditions which prevailed at Xorse Island were north-easterly winds with snow. "As the airmen, in spite of this snow, proceeded northwards this supports our opinion that the snow was only local in the north-western corner of Spitzbero-en, and that the weather was then clear over the polar ice."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)