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Show AIRPLANE SURVEY Or THE NORTH POLE NOTED EXPLORER TO HEAD MOST COMPLETELY EQUIPPED EXPEDITION EX-PEDITION EVER SENT OUT. Results of Inestimable Value to the United States and to Science Ex- , pected to Be Obtained. Plan Conceived b Admiral Peary. i New York. An expedition to lie led by Captain Kohert A. Bartlelt. noted explorer, will be sent to the polar regions re-gions next June to survey the north pole by aeroplane, according to announcement an-nouncement here, December l''J, i.y I lie Aero Club of America. The plan, it was said, was conceived by Hear Admiral Ad-miral Itobert K. 1'eary, discoverer of the pole. The, purpose of this1 expedition, which, it was said, would be the niosr completely equipped ever sent out, will be to "explore, survey and photograph the unexplored parts of the Arctic regions re-gions and establish the existence or non-existence of land or lands in that region." It is also intended, according to the announcement, "to explore the upper air and the bottom of the polar basin." ltesults of inestimable value to the jCnited States and to science surely will be obtained from this expedition, said the announcement, which added that the club would raise 2.i0.O00 to finance the trip. "The north pole has been discovered, discov-ered, but the major part of the work still remains to be done," the announcement an-nouncement states. "Both Admiral Teary and Captain" Bartlett want to do a great deal of scientific research in the polar basin, t.f which over 1,000,000 squa-'e miles remain unexplored, and they would want to have a laboratory on the ship, where the flora and fauna from the ocean bottom will be kept until the return re-turn of the expedition. Little or no data has been received from the bottom of the polar basin, and no meteorological meteoro-logical surveys have been made in the polar regions," Asserting that "with the co-operation of the leading geographical and scientific bodies assured," it is planne 1 to have the expedition leave the United Stata next June, the announcement an-nouncement continued: "There are s;'; weeks of fair weather in July aic! August, when, comparatively speaking, the cold is not extrnne. "The plnns are i have a ship go 'o Etah, about 600 mill's from tlifi .Vortb pui'tv-4s-J.v.oe,- j.H'.t'rr-M-ii-V'i's sufficiently suffi-ciently broken to permit the ship to cross Melville bay. The. .ship wouil carry a large seaplane or land ai.'-plane ai.'-plane for the final flight across the top of the earth nnl for exploration of :V. unexplored polar regions, as well smaller planes for tne scouting llights. "Immediately upon arrival at Ktah a-base a-base would be established, and, wliil.r waiting for the ice to break up farther far-ther north to permit the ship to go as fur as Cape Columbia, the small seaplanes sea-planes would fly to Cape Columbia ami establish a base there for the k"V' plane which is to be used for the fli-'ht across the top of the world, from Cm Columbia on the American side ox-r the pole to Cape Chelyuskin on the Siberian Si-berian side, and for exploration over long distances. "For the six weeks after the middle of July, when the weather conditions lire best for flying in the polar re gions, the large plane, as well as the other planes, will be put into service and the Important work of the expedition expedi-tion wil he 'lone." Asserting that only one-seven! 'n the earth's surface hi:? been accu;-::'.'--ly mapped, and two-lhinls only lnfipp'. ! fjom rough Kl'.etelm, oi'ii'-ers of Ihe l;iub stat"d that by use of airplam-s ii would be possible to do in tveuly years what would require 200 year b usual methods. |