ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 14, 17 July 1905, Page 5

ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

«*v , COMMANDER PEARY'S PROGRAMME. [press association.] (Received July 17, 9.2 a.m.) NEW YORK, 16th July. Commander Peary, who has organised another Polar expedition, is now aboard the vessel Roosevelt, and intends starting on his journey shortly. He contemplates forcing the vessel through the; 'Smith Sound route, and establishing a. base 1 fivo hundred miles from the Pole, where he will leave bis wife and daughter. Commander Peary will then take sledges, and attempt to make a dash across the Polar Pack ia February. Wireless telegraphic communication will bo maintained by relay stations in Greenland. In 1886 Commander Peary mad© a journey of reconnaissance to Greenland, advancing for a hundred miles or more upon the interior ice. In June, 1891, as chief of the Arctic expedition of tihe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, he sailed from New York in th© Kite, and made his headquarters at M'Cormick Bay, on the north-wost coast of Greenland. He made eledge excursions along Wkale Sound, Inglelield Gulf, and Humboldt Glacier ; traversed the inland ice from M'Cormick Bay to th© north-east angle of Greenland (Independence Bay, lat. 81deg. 37min N.), and proved the convergence of th© eastern and western coasts of northern Greenland and almost with positiveness the insularity of the mainland. He discovered new lands (Melville Land, Hoilprin Land) lying beyond Greenland), and named many glaciers. In September, 1892, he returned. In July, 1893, he sailed again in the Falcon, intending to survey tho north-eabtern coast of Greenland, and, if possible, to push on towawls the North 1 Pole. He was unsuccessful, and returned in September, 1806. In 1898 he again returned to the attack upon the Polo. Ho made his winter quarters at Etah, near Smith Sound, and established caches of supplies as far as Fort Conger. In the spring of 1900 he set out from Fort Conger and traced tho northern limit of the Greenland archipelago, reaching tho highest latitnde (83deg 50min N.) then attained on th© western hemisphere. His intention was to renew vho attempt to reach tihe Pole eacii spring until it should succeed. But ho returned in September, 1902, having reached latitude 84dcg 17min N. His wife, Josephine Diebitach Poai-y, author of "My Arctic Journal" (1893) accompanied the expeditions of 1891-92, 1893-94, and 1900-01 (relief expedition) as far as tho winter quarters.