Show has traversed northwest passage NORWEGIAN SLOOP WHICH IS REPORTED TO HAVE MADE THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE AND MAP OF THE ROUTE on the map dotted line marks course of the explorer from God haven greenland to fort egbert near city alaska ng william shown on map d sc as po nt of magnetic pole w nv r I 1 A 1 l 1 f t acy 1 the gjoa roand amundsen Is the first man in astory to travel the northwest pas cage from east to west in his cable message to nansen from fort egbert capt amundsen says c gjoa Is wintering at king point 69 degrees 45 minutes west all well left here aug 13 at which time the harbor was free from ice on aug 26 sighted the first vessel the schoon er charles hansen of san francisco capt mckenna twenty five kilometers south of nelson head barring land land surveyed in the spring of 1905 to 72 degrees and 10 minutes north magnetic observation king william land finished june 1 left herschel oct 24 with dog sled and arrived here to day the norwegian government cabled felicitations to capt roland amund sen the norwegian explorer who ar rived at fort egbert alaska after making his way through the north west passage and who found the true magnetic pole on king william island dr nansen anticipates that the expedition has proved a great sue cess in round numbers the distance from the magnetic pole to the geographic north pole Is 1 miles if the alon fixed for it by capt amundsen 72 degrees 10 minutes north is cor according to capt J ross who investigated the subject in 1831 the approximate position of the mag betic pole was farther south or in lati tude 70 degrees 5 minutes and 17 seconds the problem is one that has interested scientists for years it has not been known with any certain ty whether the point sought was fixed or fluctuating or whether it covered a small or large area the variation of the compass has been a source of vexation to mariners ever since the instrument came into use and it capt amundsen has cleared the mystery he has not only made a valuable con to science but has given practical aid to navigation and corn merce achievement a great one A norwegian explorer has at last achieved what daring men of almost every civilized nation has been at tempting for more than three cen tunes capt roand amundsen has completed the northwest passage without change of cars or ships the fact of the existence of a north west passage was discovered long ago earlier explorers succeeded in travers ing it but to do this they had to leave behind the vessels on which they had entered the arctic ocean walk some distance over the ice and get aboard vessels which had come from the opposite direction capt amundsen has won the distinction ot being the first man in the history of the world to navigate the arctic re glon from davis strait to bering strait in one and the same vessel he has realized the drea drean n of ages when columbus sailed from spain in 1492 it was with the aim of finding toward the west a shorter and safer route to india than the one around the cape of good hope he thought when he reached america that he had ac his object years passed before it became known that what he had found was not a new route to the east but a new world efforts then began to find north fust and northwest passages from europe to asia adolt erik NordenA jod a russian completed the north west pas sage in 1879 the first grea advance in the exploration of the northwest passage was made by john pavis who discovered the strait named after him in 1585 henrek hudson followed aliu in 1607 and in 1616 baffi r reach latitude 77 degrees 45 minutes record that stood unequaled el for years there was a great reviva of arctic exploration in the early p t of th century sir join frank lin was sent by the bri ish gov eminent with two ships and men expressly to make the northwest pas sage nothing was heard of the party from 1846 to 1804 when it learned that it had perished Nuro erous ex were sent out for its relief among them that of robert mcclure who passed through bering strait in 1850 and went eastward as as mel ville island here it was necessary to abandon the ship in fie spring of 1854 mcclure and his chew were met and rescued by par ty which had come up aroa the east and taken back to england mcclure was thus the first to make the north west passage for his achievement he was knighted by the gov promoted by a in the navy and highly honoret by eclen societies the early arctic explorations were commercial in object it ong since became certain that a northwest passage would be useless for corn purposes becaas it would be practically ex were conti aed tor reasons of sentiment and of science capt amundsen s voyage Is of great interest from tie sent mental and historical standpoints its results may also have value it Is reported that amundsen Amu has positively located the ma betic pole on king williams island and his ob lons may enable men to clear up some obscure and magnetic phenomena which long have greatly puzzled them |