ARCTIC SECRET

Evening Star, Issue 22719, 5 August 1937, Page 11

ARCTIC SECRET

HARDY EXPLORERS QUEST SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN'S LOGBOOK Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 4. (Received August 5, at 1 p.m.) Mr Francis Pease Young, the British explorer, announces that he will make a second attempt in October to find Sir John Franklin’s logbook alone. He will try to cross hundreds of miles of ice and snow and wrest from the Arctic its 90-year-old secret. Mr Pease sledged 11,000 miles in 1935 in an effort to penetrate King William Island, where Franklin is buried, but an accident ended the venture 400 miles from his objective. He says that on the journey he met an old Eskimo whose father had seen the body taken ashore from Franklin’s ship. [Sir John Franklin, after several voyages to the Arctic, in which he surveyed many thousand miles of ArcticAmerican, coastline, commanded an expedition that set out in 1845 to explore the North-west Passage. He did not return, and between 1847 and 1857 no fewer than 39 expeditions were sent out from Britain and America in unsuccessful attempts to find him. In 1859 a cairn was discovered at Point Victory in which was a record of the expedition to April, 1848, with definite proof that he had discovered the Northwest Passage, and that he had died on June 11, , 1847.]