BY MOTOR TO THE POLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13483, 6 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

BY MOTOR TO THE POLE.

SEA, LAND, AND ICE CARS.

Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Now York, is about to start on a motor-car trip to the South Pole. Ho has adopted the plan first mooted in 1904 by the former Antarctic explorer, Captain 13. S. Osbon, who, le-;-turing at the Arctic Club, recommended a> car as the best means of reaching the North Pole. „ , " None of Your dog business for me, ooserved Captain Osbon, contemptuously. He called attention to the face dint gasolene is unfreezable, and that a car can be converted into a house. Dr. Cook does not think that a motor trip is practicable to the North Pole, which is surrounded bv a shifting sea of constantly moving ice. But he points out that the-conditions in the Antarctic region are very different. >° ship cap approach the South Pole nearer than 750 miles. The rest of the distance is over hard ice and snow. Dr. Cook accordingly is constructing special motor-cars, which will enable him to travel over ice and snow at the rate of ten miles an hour. Each machine is designed to earrv two men and sufficient provisions tor {lie entire trip. Fashioned like motor-boats the vehicles will be constructed so that good speed may ha made with them eithei on sea, land, or ice. • Dr. Cook refuses to divulge the -.'nature, of the device he has invented for travelling on the Atlantic ice, but says that he hopes to start, on his adventurous journey iu two months' time.