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Show AMUNDSEN SAILS FOR POLE Arctic Explorer Leaves Nome for the Far North. Nome, Alaska. Captain Roald Amundsen left here on August S on his ship Maud for a cruise in the Arctic. Though Captain Amundsen has been In the Arctic for more than nineteen months, he said his real voyage vijiild only begin with his departure' Nome to drift northward in an ice pack. He said he would lay his course west of Wrangell island and toward the Siberian islands, keeping in open water as long as possible until he found a favorable place for striking directly di-rectly northward, probably in the vicinity of where the Jeanette of the James Gordon Bennett, Jr., expedition foundered in 18S1. |