POLAR EXPLORATION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 787, 18 August 1916, Page 10

POLAR EXPLORATION.

I . THE CANADIAN PARTY. RETURN TO CIVILISATION. | By Cable- — Press Association. — Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August 18, 8.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 17. Tart of the Stefannson expedition I has returned to Nome, Alaska. The j I parly includes Mr Diamond J.enness, '■ the New Zealand geologist. The schooner Alaska left Bernard i Harbour on July 13, and reached Herschel Island on July 28. During 1915 a detailed survey of the coastline was completed. The river was explored for a distance of 75 miles, and geological examinations and surveys were made east from Cape Barrow around the Arctic Sound. The explorers travelled by launch I and canoe, returning by sledge. The j result is that the Bathurst Island j charts have been reclined, and over I 150 islands have been charted. | The geological results are encour-1 ! aging. A great copperfield was map- j ! ped out. | Mr Jenness spent from April to November, • 1915, in sledging and ' packing, with primitive Eskimos, in I the interior of Victoria Island. He made an extensive ethnological and archaeological collection, and took '' phonograph records of Eskimo folk--1 lore. Colds fly before "NAZOL." Sore i Throats are soothed by this proved and 'popular remedy. Get "NAZOL" to- - day. 1/G buys 60 doses. .4