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Show AIRPLANE SURVEY 0FTHEifl POLE NOTED EXPLORER TO HEAD M08T COMPLETELY EQUIPPED EX- PEDITION EVER SENT OUT. II M (Results of Inestimable .Value to the " United States .and to Sclence'Ex-A Sclence'Ex-A pected to Bo Obtained P(an Conceived by Admiral Pearv Now York. An expedition to bo led 6y Captain Hubert A.. Ilartlett, noted explorer, will bo scut to tho 'polar regions re-gions next June to survey the north polo by acropluuc, according to announcement an-nouncement here, December 22, by tho 'Aero Club' of America. Kho plan, It was said, was conceived by Hear Admiral Ad-miral ltobcrt 13. Peary, discoverer of tho pole. Tho purpose nf lids' expedition, which, It was suld, would bo tho most completely equipped over sent out, will lie to "explore, survey anil photograph Iho unexplored parts of' tho Arctic legions le-gions nnd establish the existence br non-existence of land or lands in that region." It Is nlso Intended, according to tho announcement,, "to explore the upper air and tho bottom of tho polar basin." Itesults of Inestimable vnluo Jo the United States and to fclcnco surely vlll bo obtained from this expeditlop, "said the announcement, which added that Iho club would rnlso $250,000 to finance tho trip. - "The north polo has been discovered, discov-ered, hut tlio major part of tho work still remains' to be done," tho announcement an-nouncement states. "Iloth Admiral Peary and Captain ilartlett want to do a great tlcnl of scientific research In tlio polar basin, of which over 1.000,000 squuro miles remain unexplored, and they would want to have a laboratory on the ship, 'where the flora and fauna from the ocean bottom will bo kept until the return re-turn of tho expedition. I.Ittlo or no data has' been received from tho bottom of tho polar basin, nnd no meteorological meteoro-logical surveys have been miido In tlio polar regions." "Asserting Hint "with the co-opcro-tlon of the leading geographical nnd scientific bodlcj assured," it Ih planned to hut ii Iho v:p"""lor. leave the United State next June, tho. Announcement An-nouncement continued : "Thcro aro six weeks of fair weather In July and August, when, comparatively speaking, tho cold' Is not extreme. ki- "Tho plans are ,to hnvo, n ship go to Ktiih, about COO miles from, tho north, 'pole, 'In (June, when -tho Ico Is sufficiently suffi-ciently broken to, permit tho ship to cross Melville boy. The ship would carry a largo' sehplnno or hind nlr-plane nlr-plane for tho final flight across tlio ton of 'the earth, and for exploration of t!j unexplored polar regions, us well as smaller plahes for tho, scoutliig flights. ''Immediately upon nrrlynl nt Ktiih a base would bo established, and," while waiting for tho Ice to brenk up farther far-ther north to permit tho ship to go os fur ns Capo qolnmbla, tho small sea-ploncs'would sea-ploncs'would fly to Capo Columbia and establish n huso thero for tho largo piano which Is to be used for tho flight ucross the top of the world, from Capo Columbiu oo tlw Atnerlcnn side oyer tlio' polo, lo Cape Chelyuskin on the Siberian Si-berian side, iind for exploration over long, distances. "For the six weeks after tho middle of July, when tho weather conditions nro best for flying In tho polar re-jlons, re-jlons, the largo piano, ns well ns the othfr Planes, will bo put Into service nnd tho Important work of tho expedition expedi-tion wilt bo done." Assorting that only ono-scventn of tho earth's surfneo 1ms been accurately accurate-ly mapped, und two-thirds only mapped "from rough sketches, offlcors of the club stated thut.by uso of airplanes It would bo possible to do in twenty years what would require 200 years by ur-'ul methods. i. . |