PREVIOUS POLAR DISASTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 February 1913, Page 5

PREVIOUS POLAR DISASTERS

LOST LEADERS AND EXPEDITIONS. The exploration of the Antarctic \n the past lias been remarkably tree from disaster, a,nd in no -previous, expedition has the leader or any number of the members perished. In the North Polar regions the loss of life nas been much heavier, and the following is a list of :he expeditions, the leaders, of which iie<l in the Arctic : 1553. —Sir Hugh Wiltoughby and' the crews of h is two ships perish oft" the Kola Peninsula, near the White Sea. L-581.—Charles Jackman and the crew of his ship are lost in' from Nova Zembla^ L6lo.—Henry Hudson, after discovering Hudson Bay, .is- set adrift by mutineers on his ship in an open boat with his-. little son and some -sic'k. men, and is never heard of again. L6l9.—Sixty-one of the 64 men of Jens flunk's Danish expedition in search of the North-West Passage die while wintering near the Churchill River, ,and Munk, on© other man, and a boy sail home in the smallest of the expedition's two ships. L74l.—Captain Yifcus- Bering is wrecked on the Aleutian Islands, and dies of scurvy with most of his crew. LS47-B.—Sir John Fran'kHn and tbe members of his expedition, comprising 129 souls perish after threeyears in the Arctic in search of the North-West Passage. During the many subsequent, searches for this expedition, up to 1853, some 7000 miles oi coast-line was discovered. 1881.—Lieut, de Long (United States) and all but three members of his expedition perished near the'mouth of the- Lena. 1897.—The Swedish aeronaut S. A. Androe. with two companions, loaves Spitzbertr-en in a balloon for the North' Pole, and is never afterwards heard of. 1902. Baron Tell and liis expedition in the Zarya dif appear after exploring the New Siberia Islands. ] 1905.—Tj. Mylius-Ericksen, head of a j Danish -expedition, with his companions. Ha sen and BToiiluri-d. per- I isli in a sledge journey 500 miles in • Greenland. |