ARCTIC EXPLORERS
MACMILLAN EXPEDITION SAFE,
(Received May 30, 8.30 a.m.)
NEW YORK, 29th May. A telegram from the Shetland Islands states that the members oE the Macmillan Crocker Land Arctic Expedition are safe. [Professor D. B. Macmillan's expedition left New York for Crocker Land in July, 1913. Crocker Land is supposed to lie far west of the northern shores of Its existence is only known from its having been sighted from the^ shores of Grantland by Admiral Peary in 1906.] (Received May 30, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK,. 29th May. The MacMillan Expedition : has arrived safely at Etali. Two members of the expedition, Messrs. Hunt and EbJaw. geologists, sledged 1500 miles from Etah to Godhavn, in Greenland.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 128, 30 May 1917, Page 7
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