ARCTIC QUESTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 May 1934, Page 7

ARCTIC QUESTS

BRITISH EXPLORATION PARTIES. GEOLOGICAL AND MAP WORK, IN GREENLAND AREA, (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received May 25, 11.7 a.m. RUGBY, May 24. An Arctic expedition led by Mr J. M.‘ Wordie, of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and consisting of ten Englishmen, all of whom have had experience in similar expeditions, left Aberdeen to-day in the Norwegian sealer Neimen, a small vessel of 129 tons gross, with an auxiliary motor. The expedition, which is a private venture, will follow in the , tracks of Sir John Franklin, the famous explorer, and its main aim will be to make geological and other collections, and to map tlie coastline of the Canadian Arctic islands.

The exploration will be done almost entirely from the ship, or in the pack ice. The party are heading first for Disko Island, in North-west Greenland, and later the unknown interior of Ellesmere Island will be explored and an attempt to reach Melville Island will also be made. Permission has been received to make the collection in tlie Canadian Arctic preserve within which lies most of the region which it is hoped to explore. The party includes Dr Longstaff, who has travelled widely in Greenland, Mr O. Dalgety, one of the late Mr H. G. Watkins’s colleagues on Dge Island, Sir John Hanham, and Mr H. P. Hanham, both of whom have Arctic experience. This is the seventh voyage made by the leadbr. Lieutenant Lindsay and Godfrey, and Mr Croft, the three young Englishmen who intend to attempt the hazardous 1000-mile journey across the Greenland icecape, and to explore practically unknown areas in the East Greenland, are now believed to have left Jakobshavn on the west coast of Greenland, on the first stage of their adventure. Tho eldest of the party is 28.