Show t MUCH UNKNOWN LAND AND VAST PORTION OF THE EARTHS EARTH S SURFACE UNE UNEXPLORED Around the Two Poles Lie Cont Continents Awaiting the Tread of the Surveyor Mission of Capto Capt Amundsen May MayBe MayBe I Be Ac Accomplished Of or ari an an estimated land land Jand area arJa area of the earth of f square miles 20 20 square miles are entirely unexplored unexplored un un- Uno ex explored lor d and and half one of this unknown unknown un un- known known surface lies around th the two two Poles says the the Philadelphia Ledger After many cent centuries rles of geographical progress progress- seventh one-seventh of the th estimated ed land surface of the world remains hidden from knowledge Around the 1114 ail V top Mop p of No Nth NorH kh o R. R Reps o North Pole almost square miles of area is yet yetto to be surveyed and aUd at the South Pole lies a continent more wore than twice the size of Europe awaiting exploration Not only are the terrestrial poles awaiting the adventurer but the even even more important magnetic poles of which there are also two also two are not yet accurately charted Ross discovered the north magnetic pole in 1831 but buthis buthis buthis his instruments were primitive compared compared com com- pared with those now m made de and the knowledge of magnetism five seventy years ago did not equal that of to day to-day day mayy Ross Ross' have discovered the north magnetic pole and he may not havE done so Capt Amundsen left Nor Norway Norway Norway way on an expedition two years years- ago ag agoto agoto to rediscover it and to accurately chart this important spot A few months ago word was received that thai the intrepid Norwegian had pUshed his purpose but the the r report port awaits confirmation So far as as the south magnetic pole is concerned on it has never been reached As yet no explorer has held a magnetic magnetic- n needle edle over the spot although in 1898 in the Southern Cr Cross ss tion claimed to have determined Its location Dr Frederick A A. Cook who was a member of the Belgica Antarctic Antarctic An An- expedition says that no fewer than six positions are assigned by byI tf I R. R c. c t I Hop Nop of o SouM Po Polar Rolt v e experts to the south magnetic pole and these are from to do miles apart |