SCHOOLBOY EXPLORERS
A PARTY OF THIRTY
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, August 5.
Thirty boys, members of the Public Schools' Exploring Society, have started on a journey to the Arctic Circle.
The youngest of the party is sixteen and the- average age is eighteen. Tho party carries an array of scientific instruments, cinematograph cameras, and fishing rods. A large party of parents and friends went to the station to see tho^ party leave. Admiral Sir Lionel Halscy wished the boys "jolly good luck and a great time."
Surgeon-Commander G. Murray Leviek, R.N., a member of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition, is in charge of the- party. Mrs. Murray Leviek and a friend will assist in looking after the boys at the- base camp. From Helsingfors, 600 miles north will be traversed by rail. Then will como nearly 200 miles by car, until the base camp is made at a small farm within the Arctic Circle 200 miles from the nearest settlement, Oulu. Tho expedition will split up into three parties and Syill penetrate into the wild and uncharted northern wastes. Scientific and geological surveys will be' made, and it is hoped to obtain> a complete cinematograph record or' i:lie journeys to be used for lecture purposes in schools.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 10
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SCHOOLBOY EXPLORERS
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 10
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