BY SUBMARINE UNDER POLAR ICE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 209, 1 June 1936, Page 9

BY SUBMARINE UNDER POLAR ICE

Wilkins to Start Next Year

SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT WEATHER \ By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received May 31, 6.30 pm.) New York, May 30. A North American Newspaper Alliance copyright message states that Sir Hubert Wilkins announces that he is planning a submarine expedition to the Arctic Ocean in 1937 In an effort scientifically to calculate the forces responsible for weather conditions in many parts of the world. “It seems to me that the only safe and satisfactory way to gather such information is by the use of a submarine to establish a base at n point now inaccessible to surface ships,” he said. "Having means of access to the stir face through tubes or funnels, a group of scientists, by moving the boat daily in relation to the iee, may retain practically their position. Electricallyheated pipes will afford access to the open air. "I will soon commence building a new sub-ice vessel which I will endeavour fo navigate beneath the ice across the Arctic Ocean. When the journey is over I hope to have the vessel returned to the Arctic and used as a permanent base for weather observations. Then I hope to find it possible, with the help of various Governments in the Southern Hemisphere, to bring about an international bureau which will organise and establish a double ring of permanent .stations In the Antarctic.”