RELICS OF EXPEDITION.
A DIARY FOUND. The Soviet authorities have received two wireless messages from the polar expedition commanded by Captaifi Georgievsky, which is wintering at Cape Chelyuskin, both mentioning the discovery of a diary and other traces of Amundsen’s expedition in the Maud which left Norway in 1918. Apparently both messages refer to the discovery of the remnants of a Norwegian boat, which lay nea.r a stone cabin about 9ft square and 6ft high, roofed with boards and lined inside ’ with tarpaulins and containing food stores, astronomical instruments, and the diary of Tessem, a Norwegian member of Amundsen’s expedition of 1918, who perished on Dickson Island’. Amundsen sent Tessem and Knutsen, another member of the expedition, from Chelyuskin to Dickson Island in the winter of 1918. Knutsen’s charred remains were discovered in 1921, and Tessem’s skeleton in August, 1922.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 2
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