BENEATH ARCTIC ICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19029, 1 June 1936, Page 5

BENEATH ARCTIC ICE

NEW EXPEDITION WILKINS MAKING PLANS : V. .'..•; -NEW YORK, May 30.A North" American Newspaper Alliance copyright message'...states that Sir-Hubert Wilkins anmnyices that he is planning -a submarine-.expedition to the Arctic ocean in 1937 in an effort scientifically to calculate the forces responsible for the weather conditions in many parts of the World.' ;-.? "It seems to; me, "ho says, "that the only safe and satisfactory, way'to gather such information- is fry tho use of a submarine to establish' a tease at r point now inaccessible ' to surface ships. Having means of access to the surface through tubes or, funnels, it group of scientists, by-.movjng fthe boat daily in relation to the' ice, may retain practically their position. Electricallyheated pipes will afford access to the open - :.\ .'._-• •

"I will soon commence building a now sub-ice vessel, which will endeavour to navigate "beneath -.the -ice across the Arctic Ocean. .When tho journey is over, I hope : to : have the vessel returned to the Arctic and, used as a. permanent base for weather, observations. 'Then. I hope, to find it possible, with tlte ' belp>i)f '. various governments in the; Southern Hemisphere, to bring about xn international bureau, which- will organiso-and establish a .double ring of -permanent stations in Antarctica." ' ' ' ..'-.