AMUNDSEN EXPEDITION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 246, 12 July 1921, Page 5

AMUNDSEN EXPEDITION

VESSEL TO BE REPAIRED AT SEATTLE. Seattle, July 9. Captain Amundsen has arrived from Nome. He will reside at Seattle for a year to repair the Maud’s propeller. Meantime he will finally arrange the drift to the Pole. He will saiL from Seattle next June.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

[Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian discoverer of tho South Pole, left Norway in ,the Fram, Nansen’s famous ship (renamed the Maud), on a North' Polar expedition in the summer of 1918. It was intended to journey by sea to Alaska, and the plans contemplated a drift across the Pole. In September, 1918, the Maud called at Dixon Island, in the White Sen, for oil for her motora and no further word came from her till April, 1920. Amundsen had then arrived at Anadyr, in Siberia, after having been baffled by pack-ice. Ho intended to go on to Alaska, and then make a fresh attempt to drift over the polar region. He sot out again at the end of July, intending to sail to the west of Wrongel Island and' then turn directly north. Shortly afterwards it was reported that he had lost several of his crow bv desertion. Ho was apparently compelled by this trouble to return to Alaska.] .