POLAR EXPLORATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 12119, 22 December 1913, Page 5

POLAR EXPLORATION.

FATE OF THE KARLUK

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Per Press Association. New Y T ork, December 20. Peary has every confidence that Bartlett will be able to return from tlio Arctie regions. He does not helieve h;r perislied : -aboard tlie Karluk; As long as the vessel -was in packed ice she could not sink, and. in the event of getting loose and sinking, the crew would have had time to leav;e. London, December 20. Lieut. Stackhouse hopes that two geologists —one from Australia and one from New Zealand —will volunteer foi his Antarctic expedition, thereby making it Imperial.