EXPLORATION IN ARCTIC.
NORTH POLAR FLIGHTS. AEROPLANES USELESS. AMUNDSEN'S EXPERIENCE. By Telegraph—-Press Association—Copyright. (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. OSLO, July 5. Captain Raold Amundsen and his companions, who accompanied him on the recent polar flight, arrived at Horton, Norway, this evening. Nine flying boats from the naval station met their ship at the lighthouse and accompanied it down the harbour. The aviators will come to Oslo tomorrow in the aeroplane in which they returned from tho Arctic. In the tho course of an interview Captain Amundsen said he was not interested in the North Pole, as Peary had been there. A dash from Spitzbergen to Alaska was all that interested him there. Tho recent flight had shown that to reach the North Pole in aeroplanes was impossible. Captain Amundsen said he could not give any opinion in regard to Eckener's proposed flight in a dirigible, but photographs he and his party had taken showed how impossible such a trip with aeroplanes would be. Tho pictures showed tho nature of the ice and what must be done to get rid of it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19062, 6 July 1925, Page 9
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