ARCTIC EXPLORERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19500, 8 June 1925, Page 7

ARCTIC EXPLORERS

AMUNDSEN’S POLAR FLIGHT. MAY HAVE ENCOUNTERED SNOWSTORM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, Juno 6. (Received June 7, at 5.5 p.m.) The following copyright message from the Fram indicates that Captain Amundsen and his five companions may have run into a snowstorm soon after they started their flight to the Pole, despite the fine-weather forecasts. The message, which is dated Dane Island, June 5, says;—■ “During the last few days there has been cloudy weather with the temperature above freezing point. The spring nas commenced, and the snow is melting, but at the same time a thick polar fog prevails. Trappers who were wintering to the north on the Norse Islands arrived yesterday. They related that on May 21 when the polar flight started under a bright sky at King’s Bay, the conditions prevailing at, the Norse Islands were north-easterly winds, with snow. As the airmen, despite this snow, proceeded northwards, this supports our opinion that the snow was only local in the north-western corner of Spitsbergen, and that the weather was clear over the polar ice.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.