ARCTIC EXPLORATION

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3023, 18 August 1916, Page 3

ARCTIC EXPLORATION

THE STEFANNSON EXPEDITION

PART OF IT RETURNS

INCLUDING THE NEW ZEA-

LANDER

VALUABLE W.OTHC DONE

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New York, August 17

Part of the Stofannson expedition has returned to Nome, Alaska, including Dr. Jonncss, of the Mutt, AVellington, New Zealand.

The schooner Alaska, left Bernard Harbour on. July-.13 and reached Ver-" schel Island on July 28. During 1915 a detailed survey of the fcoast lino was completed, the river explored for 75 miles, aud the geology examined. Surveys were, made east from Cape Barrow around More Bay and Arctic Sound by launch and canoe, returning by sled. As a result the Bathurst Island charts wero rectified and over 150 islands charted.

The geological results were also encouraging, a great copporfield being mapped. Dr. Jenness spent from April to November, 1915, sledging and packing, with the aid of primitive Eskimos, to the interior of Victoria Island, where he made extonsjivo ethnological and archaeological researches, and a collection of phonograph records of Eskimo folk lore.