Show NEW COUNTRY 1 S CHARTED I II I MacMillan Summarizes I Results of Aerial Exploration i i iu u I A 7 WASHINGTON l Auz Aug Au 27 1 A A. complete c resume of the tho flying operations of or the navy airplanes with the MacMillan I Arctic expedition I tion was received hero today from Lieutenant Commander Byrd by I radio In response to ft a request I from the National Geographic so- so clely The e dispatch shows that tho tb three planes tie flew an aggregate ate of or mIles J and saw an area aren nearly as Its large largo as the tho state of or Maine ll Only i ione one forced landing was necessary during all the flights The dispatch follows My y record shows 11 that the planes have a a. total of ot 75 hours and 50 1 minutes flying time which at 80 tO miles per pt r hour equals miles total flown by flown by NA 1 way away from Etah 2506 miles by hy NA 3 1713 miles by b NA NA-I. 1073 miles I Total miles flown away from i Etah by three planes on work worl ac accomplished aC 1 cc- cc flight mission miles I IONE ONE OXE FORCE DO The forced landing occurred on I these se flights The NA 3 was greed forced down on the way to Igloo i a half halt mile from front Etah I harbor Approximately square miles was wall seen from Crom the tho planes on these flights Of course coure many of the flights were made over o the tho same course south and south- south southeast cast east of Bay nay fiord extending for at I least 70 10 miles I These are arc mountain ranges and I peaks some of which reach rach an 10 al- al i of at least feet tet and and mostly covered with snow except I for a few c comparatively low ranges near Bay Fiord I These mountain moun lain ranges do not show on any charts which I have seen Mountain ranges lie he nearly 1 i all nil the way n from Sawyer bay to toj i Cannon Fiord and it Is thought tho that most of this region Is unexplored unexplored by white men No Xo moun moun- mountains mountains mountains I are shown on charts charls In a di- di dl 1 I degrees from Sawyer I Iha bay ha but there are arc mountains In In I that region that extent at least 25 miles mile m ii es T In SJ g i There is a lake about two miles miles' miles long frozen over o In the mountains between bt Sawyer bay and Cannon Connon I Fiord about 20 miles from Crom the northwest end of or Sawyer awyer bay bayThe ba bayThe The Greenland ice cap reaches an altitude of or at least feet In a direction 1 00 degrees es from from Robertson bay ba I It Is thought that little has has has' been known heretofore about Ico lel I conditions around Ellesmere Island In the summer Nearly all all of the many fiords fiord seen by br us show them to be filled with Ice lee which occasionally opens up but soon I closes In again Bay Day Fiord nord and Eureka sound east past of or Axel l I lid lid- lidberg I berg Island are filled with drifting Ire Ice The land In Ellesmere Jo Island I is firm but too rugged to afford aCCord a 1 I landing place i In all nil the th territory flown Clown over the Greenland lc Ice cap n a lively warm stratum of or air was ex experienced cx- cx at nt feet reet and a i bit iii x I terly terl cold one at fc ret feet t |