BUOY'S LONG JOURNEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 12

BUOY'S LONG JOURNEY

Abuoy, left in-the Arciic Ocelsin-five year's ago;by a; Soviet1 irie-breaker, has been returned' to the Soviet: Union with a note saying that-it Had been found in the Bay of Biscay.-The story of the buoy's long'trip was' deßf^ibed in' ari interview at Moscow- by Professor Wiese, the famous Arctic explorer. "Several wooden buoys with notes, er: closed in then were thrown, into, v.tK« Laptev Sea cfuring the Arctic yoya^': of the ice-breaker <in 1932,"'- lw.' saidx "Tht-drift of ;the buoy-now 'disfec^vered in' the Bay of1 Biscay -is of > great interest. Evidently1 it drifted from the Laptav.Sea: into the Arctic-basiH north, of 'Franz Josef Land.' 'The East; Greenland current carried it toVthe.southern extremity of Greenland. There, caught by the Labrador current,- ; .'it ...".was brought to the Atlantic Ocean'in. the vicinity pf Newfoundland.' whence th« Atlaiiti 6 current' earned v the .-•' across the ocean to the Bay of Biscay, Tliu's in five years it covered: a distance of 8125 miles." -'-.■•■- ; ■ ,'.