Show DETAILS OF CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S PLANS Of EXPLORATION Expects to Drift Across the Polar Waste in Seven Years SAN FRANCISCO April 27 Details Details of or Capt Roald Roal l Amundsen's plans to reach the north polo pole are aio contained in itt letters from the Norse explorer to Henry Lund Norwegian consul here Amundsen who first succeeded In taking a ship through the Northwest passage is 15 I preparing pl to lock himself In the Ice ico for tor seven years and expects to drift by the pole The voyage will be undertaken for the purpose purpose pur pur- pose of scientific investigation With a crew of ot thirteen countrymen Amundsen says he will start from this city early next year In tho the Fram a sturdy little craft used by Nansen in his farthest north explorations The Fram will be fitted out Out Out-in In San Francisco after being brought around Cape Horn next winter The cost of the outfit it is 15 estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated will be close to The fhe Itinerary of ot the polar cruise willbe will willbe willbe be through the Bering straits to the northeast of 01 the New Siberian Islands where the explorer will permit the h Pram Fram to ht freeze e in Tho plan is then e eo to o drift with the ice floes noes and currents winter and summer for tor about seven years Amundsen writes that he has carefully estimated the results and believes that he e will be C carried past t the pole a and that W eventually el aR using the auxiliary gasoline s power ower of the Fram as may be n needed eded he will emerge on the eastern coast of Greenland The chief object of ot this expedition Is Isto isto to 0 study the currents temperature andea and sea ea life liCe of or the tha arctic region Instruments Instruments ments said to be new to science will be used sed th that will enable the tho e explorer r to t f record rd the e temperature p e of the ocean e three miles below the surface Amundsen states that he Is not specially specially Interested in reaching the geo geo- geographical geographical graphical pole and plans to go there only because the pole lies in his path of or travel tra |