AMUNDSEN'S PLAN
BY SHIP AND AEROPLANE TO" THE POLE.
Eoald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, returned from th© West front, announced in New York that he has not abandoned his plan to iveach the North Pole by the joint use of a specially constructed ship and an areoplane. The trip to the western front was undertaken at the suggestion of the Committee on Public Information, and Captain Amundsen is to givo a series of lectures on conditions in the war zone and on tho part American soldiers a'i-e taking. Captain Amundsen said he would be ready to start on his journey to the North Pole in July, and. was_ anxious to return to his home'-jn. Christiania, Norway, whore he has gathered supplies for a eeven years' trip and where_ the vessel which is to carry him and his party to the Far North is being built.
The_ vessel is an auxiliary steamship, I2offc in length, has a. 40-foot beam, and a draught of 12 feet. She is shaped likean egg, Captain Amundsen eaid, so that she may. be lifted by the ice pressure and carried along with the northerly drifting currents toward the Polo.
Captain Amundsen's ship will carry no wireless, he said, because he does not want to hear any bad news from home. While in tho United States ho will try to obtain the services of a. capable air pilot, to use the aeroplane which will be part of the expedition's equipment.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 141, 14 June 1918, Page 4
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245AMUNDSEN'S PLAN Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 141, 14 June 1918, Page 4
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