ARCTIC PLEASURE TOUR

Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 February 1931, Page 9

ARCTIC PLEASURE TOUR

CRUISE IN^iOE-BREAKER. LAND OF PERPETUAL LIGHT. The powerful Soviet ice-breaker Maligin, which took part in the search for General Nobile and bis stranded party in the summer of 1928, will carry a group of from 30 to 50 passengers this year on what will probably be the first pleasure cruise ever organised in the Arctic Ocean. Leaving Archangel probably in the latter part of June, the Maligin will touch at Franz Josef Land, where the northernmost radio station in the

world has been established, and visit the larger Arctic area, of Novaya Zemiya, returning after a cruise of six weeks or two months. Besides a crew: experienced in Arctic navigation the Maligin will carry northern hunters. who will assist those passengers who mav wish to hunf polar bears and other animals which may be sighted from the ship. Facilities will be provided for collecting Arctic plants and for photography, ami llie ice-breaker wifi be provided with a doctor and a short-wave radio station, although the polar climate is said to he so healthy that the services of the doctor are not likely to be needed, except in case of some unforeseen accident. Another novel attraction of the voyage is that it will take place under conditions of perpetual light, as the Arctic sun does not set during the summer months.