ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7202, 13 September 1901, Page 2

ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

A CANADIAN EXPEDITION. While America— and with, it the world— will be watching the progress of Mr Bald- / win and his motor aoross th« Arctio icefields, Canada will also have its' especial attention fixed 1 on tlie journey cf Captain Bernier, also to the Same^ goal. Captain J. E. Bernier, who hails from Quebec, sails shortly in commaandi of an expedition equipped by the Geographical Society of Canada and; asl«ted by subscriptions coleotcd in the Dominion and in the Mother Country. j It is not many mior.itlhs ago since Captain Bernier was in London, awaking arTaE'gements for his journey and buying stores. Like Baldwin, 'the motorist, 'he is optimistic what North Pole voyage* is net. But the captain has the greater advantage of haiving j been in the Polar regions before— nOt very high up, but sufficiently far to return, to OaniMta, with a bulky log-book ffiledi with valuable scientific data. Captain. B*raier places spscific reliance in good subordinates, and his crew, whidii he has selected wit.h great care, consist'S of hardy sailors from, the shoies cf Canada and Newfoundland, whence fiba exipodiiitioni starts. The comma.rder wlsk> Mieves in following the beaten track so far as he can ; he has chosen the oldest of old routes, via Smith's Sound, followed by most English, expeditions wi<.n m>oro or lf*-s success siirce the <Jays of Frank.in. Two expeditions «<tiarfc this year in quest of tshe- poles, both manned 1 by British-born mien.