ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 210, 19 August 1916, Page 4

ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

STEFANSSON’S NORTHERN PARTY. IsVSTBAUAN AND N.Z. CABL« AWN.] New York, Aug. 18. Dr Anderson, leader of the (hobthem section of Stefansson’s expedition, has returned home from Alaska. Over 150 islands were charted in the region heretofore mapped aa Chapman, Lewis and Maicct Islands. In Bathurst Inlet a great field was investigated, where native copper is widely distributed h> extensive quantities. Valuable ethnological and archaeological collections find over 1000 specimens of birds and mammals were obtained. NEAV ZEALAND EXPLORER. AVellington, Aug. 18. Mr G. L. Jenness, Lower Hutt, has received <a cable stating that his son. Dr. Diamond Jenness, is safe. Dr Jenness is a New Zealander, born in AVellington and educated at Wellington College and Victoria College, where he graduated yith honours in classics and gainfid numerous scholarships In 1908 he went to Oxford, entering Balliol College and taking up the study of Litterae Humaniores and Anthropology. Tn the latter work he obtained a diploma in 1910. His work attracted such notice that in 1911 ha was selected by the Oxford University Committee of Anthropology to lead an anthropological expedition to New Guinea. The adventures of this expedition amohgst the primitive peoples of Papua and the. valuable work done are yet fresh in the memory of scientists.