Show THREE POLAR expeditions they are bd based on n Dlf frent Tb oril and nd will tak different bout boef three expeditions based upon different theories as to the best beat way to reach the north pole and pursuing different routes are to set out for thit that destination this summer dr namen is to sail along the coast of siberia until he reaches a point off the mouth lena delta near where the jeannette was lost and then go north till locked in the ice field which he expects will flout float with him across the pole nan sens ship is nearly ready his stores and provisions are being pre prepared pared and his hi crew select selected edL his intended assoni ates in the expedition among whom may be mrs nansen are already testing their endurance by sleeping in norwegian snow drifts and a depot of supplies is being prepared far up on the siberian coast it is here that so some in e ti time ime next june nansen will take on board his dogs and sledges for his exa expedition tion is to be well equipped for journeying over land or ovir over the ice should it become necessary nee essary to leave his ship nansen has incidentally contributed tri buted to the equipment of the other expeditions his researches and those odthe of the specialists who have been employed in his in interests teresta have re resulted in several new methods of preparing f food so as to obtain the most nutriment in the least bulk and all future explorers I 1 will profit by this works work nansen goes prepared to be gone six years but hopes to be floated across the pole and into water off greenland within three years the other expeditions are both to be attempts to reach the pole or near unto it over land peares plans are familiar but not so BO those of Pre frederick derick jackson who is organizing organizing an expedition which is to sail from liverpool 1 in june jackson n sails ato at once ne for franz anz josef Jose land flanA which lies to the north of bf nova and to the east of spitz bergen its southern southernmost mosi point touches t the e eightieth parallel of north latitude and the six sixtieth bieth parallel of eastlon east longitude gil bisects it how far it extends northward no one knows and payer discovered it in august 1873 and went some distance into the ini interior Peter maWs land and 0 oscar car land lie to the north in latitude 83 and beyond and measure the limit of e exploration X plo r atio fi in th this Ls part of the arctic regions jackson thinks that peary has gone north as far as possible on greenland 1 and that he will only cover the old ground in in his coming attempt to go farther arther As to nansen jackson is conf confident that his ship will meet the fate of the jeannette and the Tege b by y being crushed in the thick ici ice his own theory is that Pet ennana land extends as far north as latitude 85 at least this would be wi within thin SOO miles of the pole a distance which he proposes to caver cover in boats if he find an open sea oron or on sledges if he fingland find land ori or ice ce jacksons party willmous will consist ast 1st of ten ar or twelve and be provisioned for or three years |