ARCTIC EXPLORATION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 244, 9 July 1921, Page 7

ARCTIC EXPLORATION

A DANISH EXPEDITION. At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society tho Arctic explorer, M. Knud Rasmussen, explained the plans tor his new expedition to the Central Esquimaux and the North American Archipelago—an expedition undertaken to gather materials for an archaeologiea ond ethnological survey of these hitherto but slightly known parts of the world, writes the Copenhagen correspondent of the “Morning Post.” The expedition, which consists of At. Rasmussen, three other Danish scientists, and six Polar Esquimeaux, will leave the settlement of Holstemborg in Greenland for Hudson Bay at th© end of August. The area to b© explored W the central part of tho archipelago, which forms a kind of natural bridge between Greenland and North America, comprising Ellesmere Land, North Devon, Somerset, Baffin Land, Boothia Felix, the Melville Peninsula, and the Barren Grounds. ... . _ The expedition's headquarters will b* at Lyon Inlet,- whence oledge expeditions will be made to neighbouring Esquimaux places. During tho first autumn and winter the IgJuhk tribe at Fury and Hekla Strait will be visited, and 'probably several parts of Baffin land. In the spring of 1922. the expedition will work down to Chesterfield Inlet. Th© habits of certain Esquimaux tribes will be studied. In the spring of 1923 the expedition will return on the last ice to its headquarters at Lyon Inlet. In the summer of 1923 the expedition’s motor schooner will arrive horn®.