UNKNOWN LAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 91, 17 April 1912, Page 2

UNKNOWN LAND.

Tile Times recently i'ccelvcd tint following particulars of the new Polar expedition, the arrangements for which arc being made by the American Museum of Natural .History and the American (leographical Society, with the co-operation of Yah; University and other institutions.

Tl 10 expedition is to ho headed by Mr George liorup, Assistant Curate of Geology in tin' American Museum of Natural History, and Mr Donald 15. McMillan, who were hotli mein hers ol Admiral Peary’s last Polar expedition. It Will leave Sydney hy special steamer in July collecting dogs and whale and walrus meat on the way northward. Winter quarters will he established on the south side of Ihislte. Peninsular, the ship being seat Home. From September onwards during the w inter supplies will he taken hy sledge to Cape Thomas Hubbard. With the return of dawn in February, 1913, the party will leave Cape Thomas Hubbard and push across the ice to Crocker Land, where they will remain until May. After sending a messenger to North Star Bay with news of the expedition, the party will carry on scientific work in Grant Land and along the return route to winter quarters on Flagler Bay, arriving there in July, 1913. During the summer supplies and collections will be transferred to Mali, and in the spring and summer of Mil an expedition will he made from Whale Sound directly eastward to the summit of the ice-cap of Greenland, at the widest part of the island. The party will finally return to New York by special ship in the autumn of 1914. If the expedition is to accomplish these results it is estimated that an outlay of 50,000 dollars (£10,000) will ho incurred. Provided that sufficient funds arc contributed from outside sources, the American Museum of Natural History has agreed to take over the organisation and management of the expedition and to contribute GOOO dollars. The American Geographical Society lias promised 6000 dollars, and the Yale University 1000 dollars. There remains to he raised a sum of 35,000 dollars. Among those who are supporting the project arc Mr llooscvelt and Admiral Peary. Air Roosevelt writes; “If, as appears to he the case, Crocker Land actually exists, it is the last considerable mass of unknown land on our planet. It would ho a line thing, for America if the discovery, of this land could be placed to our credit as a nation.”