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Show AIRPLANE GOING TO NORTH POLE Expedition of Exploration Will Leave United States in the Early Spring. NEW YORK, Dec 22. An expedition expedi-tion to bo led by Captain Robert A. Bartlctt, noted explorer, will be sent to tho polar regions next June to survey sur-vey the north pole by airplane, according accord-ing to announcement here tonight by the Aero Club of America. The plan, it was said, was conceived by Roar Admiral Ad-miral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the pole. Results of inestimable value to the United States and to science surely will be obtained from this expedition, said the announcement, which added that the club would raise $250,000 to finance the trip. "The north pole has been discovered but the major part of the work still remains to be done;" the announcement announce-ment states. "Doth Admiral Peary and Captain Bartlctt want to do a great deal of scientific research in the polar basin of which over 1,000.000 square miles remain unexplored and they would want to have a laboratory on the ship where the flora and fauma from the ocean bottom will be kept until the return of the expedition. Little or no data has been obtained from the bottom of the polar basin and no meteorological me-teorological surveys have been made in the polar region." , Asserting that with the "co-operation of tho. leading geographical and scientific bodies assured," it is planned to have the expedition leave the United Unit-ed States next June, the announcement continued. "There are six weeks of fair weather weath-er in July and August when, even in the polar regions, it is seldom lower than 60 degrees below zero. The plans are to have a ship go to Etab, about 600 miles from the north pole, in Juno, when theMce is sufficiently broken to permit the ship- to cross Melville bay. The ship would carry a large seaplane or land airplane for the final flight across the top of the earth and for exploration, ex-ploration, of the unexplored polar regions, re-gions, as "well as smaller planes for the scouting flights "Immediately upon arrival at Etah, a bas6 would be established and while waiting for the ice to break up further north to permit the ship to go as far as Cape Columbia, the small seaplanes would fly to Cape Columbia and estab- j lish a base there for the large piano which is to be used for the flight across the top of the world, from Cape Columbia on the American side over 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 Muly, when the weather conditions are best for flying in the polar l egions, the largo plane as well as the planes, will bo put into service and the Important Im-portant work of the expedition will b,e done." Asserting that only one-seventh of tho earth's surface has been accurately accurate-ly mapped, and two-thirds only mapped from' rough sketches, officials of the club stated that by use of airplanes it yould be possible to do in twenty years what would require 200 years by usual methods. The committee which, after two years of study, recommended that the :lub finance the expedition, comprises: Admiral Peary, Alan R. Hawley. Henry A, Wise Wood, Henry Woodhouse, Rear' Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, John Hays Hammond, Jr., Rear Admiral William N. Little, N. S. N., Professor Charles L. Poor, Colonel E. Lester Jones, U. S A.; Charles Jerome Edwards, Ed-wards, Major Sushman A. Rice, U. S. A., and Augustus Post. Captain Bartlett, who will lead the new expedition, commanded Uic Roose-i'elt Roose-i'elt on the Peary expedition. While captai nof the Karluk, which was crushed in the ice in January, 1911, lie led the seventeen members of the expedition to Wrangel island, then crossed over to Siberia with one Es-klma Es-klma and returned with a relief party. Fie was also commander of the MacMil Ian relief expedition and last winter was commended by Secretary Daniels for liis extraordinary achievement in taking the ship Favorite out of the ice rom Halifax. The purpose of the expedition, which, it was said, will be the most completely equipped ever sent cut will be to "explore, survey and photograph tho 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 Lo the announcement, "to explore th upper air and the bottom of the polar basin ' oo |