THE NORTH POLE
AMUNDSEN’S PLANS. FLIGHT FROM ALASKA. Press Association—By' Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 25. Advices from Bergen _ state that it is now settled that Captain Roald Amundsen will start for the North Pole from Wainright, Alaska, to Spitzhergen about June 20. The journey is expected te> take 22 hours. A Norwegian patrol ship and two seaplanes will assist in the flight, the former cruising on the edge of the Polar ice north of Spitzhergen, while the seaplanes will fly northward to the Pole to meet Amundsen and escort him home or help him if necessary.—Reuter. The Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, has for some time been preparing for a new expedition to the North Polar regions. Aided by the aeroplane, he hoped to make observations much in advance of anything that had previously been done, while wireless was also to be pressed into the service. Amundsen’s ship Maud left Christiania and made for Alaska, where the explorer had arranged to join her. He himself left New York in a monoplane, which he proposed to use on the expedition, but he was wrecked while flying over Pennsylvania. However, he reached Seattle, and sailed thence in the Maud to Port Borrow, the most northern point of Alaska.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18873, 28 May 1923, Page 7
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