Arctic Exposition Planned
LONDON—An International Exhibition of Polar Exploration to be held in'Bergen, Norway, in explains the visit here of Professor Brogger of •the University of Oslo. He is engaged in enlisting British support for an exposition that is to present a wide surIvey of Polar exploration, Arctic conditions, resources, and physical features by means of specimens from the work of meteorological stations, navigations'. ' charts, photographs, dioramas, paint? ings, models, and natural-history ex hibits. King Haakon of Norway is patron *of the enterprise, Crown Prince Olax is Honorary President; Johan Nygaardsvold, Norwegian Prime Minister, is one of the Presidents and
many survivors of Polar expeditions are [serving on the Honorary Committee that was formed in 1930. I There are to be three sections to the Exhibition, and collectively they will ielate to a most comprehensive iieldrthe Arctic Ocean, Asiatic and American mainlands adjoining the Arctic Ocean, the Arctic archipelagos of Asia and America, Greenland, Jan Mayen, Spitzbergen, Franz Josef Land, and Novaya Zemlyn.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 11
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163Arctic Exposition Planned Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 11
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