Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1925, Page 21

MAGMILLAN'S DASH ' PROMISES THRILLS, Finding of New Continent | i Only One of Possibilities in Flight. Tinding a new continent, explora- ion of one of the world’s most pictur- #=que lake countries, blazing a trail| Wcross a frozen desert and acquiring | kolor photographs of flowers an? fishes that civilized man has never een—these are a few of the major ossibilities of the MacMillan Arctic wxpedition under the auspices of the Nationdl Geographic Society. The expedition will utilize two genii wf modern _invention, aircraft and ¥adio; the first to carry men where they never have gone by land or sea, £nd the second to waft the explorer’s ¥oices to American homes from frozen nds which most of mankind will never visit. Not only will the United States Navy's airplanes seek to ‘'spot” the land that is believed to be shrouded in the million unknown square miles that lle between America’s flag at| Point Barrow and the rs and| Stripes that Peary planted at the pole. The planes also will fly over the little-known ice cap of Greenland pene- trate the Eskimo-storied lake country of inner Baffin Island, with its game | and birds and and pierce the for- bidding and pra lly unknown parts| of romantic Labrador. They will fiy the world’'s northern Etah, and seek morward from most settlement, mere Island and its giant peninsula, Grant Land. On Trail of Viking. When MacMillan's two ves from Labrador to Greelnad Zollow the same course as that s ! by Leif, the son of Eric the Red 500 | years before Columbus discovered America. MacMillan will compare the Norse ruins of Labrador with those of Greenland and the mind's eve of the expedition members along this route cannot but be impressed by the amaz- ing navigation contrast of the cen- turies that lie between Leif’s hypothe- tical voyage and MacMillan's. There arises the pictu of Vikings' clinker-built, undecked boats Mll-fitted to fight the relentless ic Pack; no power, no charts, no sextant, N0 chronometers, not even a compass! The explorers of aboard the Bowdoin, with i ht decks, whiteoak - timbes sheath vith fronwood and reinforced forward with steel sheathing. She is driven by oil | engines, she has comfortable cabin and is electric lighted: she has charts, sextants, chronometers and spirit compasses corrected for deviation to the tenth of a point! Her companion ship will carry the “hoats that give men wings,” as the Eskimos put it, and the Bowdoin has aboard instru- ments that will carry the crew’ voices back home to their familie 1,500 to 2,000 miles away! Farther North the expedition’s ships will make their way through dread Melville Bay, where even in July they jiay encounter great, unbroken ice fields weighing countless tons, im- pinging against the edge of the fast ice. Many a ship has been entrapped when caught between these mighty masses. Old salts tell grim stories of tragedies here in the whaling days: how, in 1857, a southerly wind drove the pack down on a whole fleet, crushed two of the ships and ground them to bits. In a single year 22 ships met such a fate—one of them, the Race Horse, literally was turned inside out and her keel was forced up through her deck! tah, nearest inHabited spot to the THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, “one sees, outside himself and his party, only three things, the infinite expanse of the frozen plain, the in- finite dome of the cold blue sky, and the cold white sun.” But this frozen Sahara may contain _undiscovered mountain ranges. It offers an u WASHINGTON, D. PRoute of Ships THF MACMILLAN ARCTIC LXPEDITION UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Route of Planes to Establish Airplane Base Proposed Routes of Exploration Flights ‘A Drawn in Map Dept.of The National Geographic Society sual invitation to exploration by a: tion, for it probably is the world’s largest expanse of practically dead level surface. ‘It presents possibilities unprobed for an aeronautical high- road as a route to Europe, offering the whole length of Greenlurd, 1,500 miles, as a landing field. 1t is in the interior of Baffin Island —an interior of some 200,000 un- known square miles—that Command- er MacMillan believes the Nav fiyers will “spot” thousands of lake: centers of a rich animal, bird and fish life. This belief is based on the tales of the nomad Eskimos, who are the only human beings lh.’!' penetrated large areas of this intejor. Nearly as ! an area remains to 120" Tio oo North Pole, will be the expedition’s ship base. When MacMillan arrived there in 1913 he found “serious con- gestion”—the residents had increased to 19 men, women and children. From Etah the Navy planes will fly back and forth to Cape Hubbard, on Axel Heiberg Island, to establish a flying base for the flights over the vast un- known zrea that lies between Point arrow, Alaska, and the North Poje. The explorer’s living companions on Axel Heiberg Island will be white wolves, whose tracks are intermingled with those of musk oxen and white caribou. In the Winter it . bleak, biting winds; the Summer ditions are_excellent for flying. Hubbard, the flying bas s known as ape Horn of the North.” . the ship base and headquar- of the radio station WNP, through illan will send home news plorations through the Na- nestles on the shores of North Greenland, along the narrowest part of Smith Sound, 700 miles from the North Pole. of the Kane expedition there in 1854 was the first visit of white men, The tiny settlement has a beautiful harbor, with cliffs rising from the water's edge to 1,100 feet, inclosing one of the few kood harbors in North Greenland. Fortunately, the harbor opens to the southwest, whence few gales arise. Memories of Pioneers. “An_explorer of the north cannot enter Etah without being overwhelm- ed with memories of the past,” savs Comdr. MacMillan. “As one enters Smith Sound he is on the threshold of stirring events in the history of Arctic exploration. On the starboard bow lie the Crystal Palace Cliffs and famous Pandora Harbor. Just beyond is Port Foulke, headquarters of the Hayes Cape ! pedition of 1860-1, and Foulke iord, where Peary wintered in 1899- 1900. Littleton Island recalls the names of Kane, Hall, Young, Nares, Beebe and Greely. On Polaris Beach the remnants of the Charles Francis Hall expedition wintered in 1872-3. Cape Sabine marks the scene of the Greely tragedy, where now stands the National Geographic Soclety’s bronze tablet memorial in memory of the Lrave Americans who lost their lives ! there in behalf of polar exploration. Cairn Point and Refuge Harbor, with Rensselaer Harbor beyond, echo the mighty struggle to disclose the secrets of the northland.” Between Etah and Axel Heiberg Land sprawls Ellesmere Island, which ies in its igregularity with Celebes. Its black, serrated peaks rise out of snow-bound valleys, cut by winding glaciers. For a long time separate parts of the island were known by separate names. These still are preserved as local designations. The northern- most section is Grant Land; next to the south lies Grinnell Land and far- ther in the same direction Ellesmere Land. Sverdrup cleared up the doubtful topography of Ellesmere Is- land in 1899, but he added still an- other name, calling the extreme southwestern portion King Oscar Land. , Hayes First at Etah. William Baffin was the first white man to see Ellesmere Island, when he sailed almost to the head of Baf- fin Bay in 1616; but no white man set foot on this land until 1854, when Hayes, a member of Kane's expedi- tion, crossed the frozen sound from Greenland and surveyed a section of the coast. Baffin Bay and the sounds and channels north of it leading to_the Polar Sea came to be known as “the ¢ Heatt of Dairyland RESH as the new spring grassand clover, your Milk comes to your home every day from sunny farmlands. Care- fully selected dairy herds in this famous section constitute its source. 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