Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 1 | Amundsen Has Lander after Many Months

!Hj;F I P LANDFD AFTER Discoverer of South Pole Reported Re-ported Arrived at Far ' Northern Post ' EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF ; SaLENCE IS BROKEN j Expedition Is Undertaken to ! Make Scientific Findings of Polar Region k NOME, Alaska. April -3. (By the Associated Press. ) Captain Roakl Amundsen. discoverer of tho couth pole, has arrived at Anadir, a trading post on the Bearing sea' eastern Siberia, Si-beria, according to a wireless message i'rom Anadir received last night. The dispatch gave; no details other than suggesting . that the . explore had reached the village in a ship. For moi-e than nineteen months iIiq. silencesuf the Polar seas have shrouded shroud-ed the'veHsel 'tliat bore Roald Amfunjl: rten' and; -his shipmates in -their strange? fendejLvb'r.to reach tire1 north pole. ' '., 'ir&id'ed ;Tov.aiil Pole. ' '' iCaiifriJli:s tv'1 c- u d . -t oo k"j on o?rat-'I3'.jrislandd, in the White sea. about Ssptembc.r 1, 1913,, nd soon after sailed off to the northwest through the rapidly freezing Arc.'.ie. It was the explorer's plan to drive me ship as far northward as he could, then to lodge her in the ice and pei-mit pei-mit her to be dragged along with '.ha enormous floes. Amundsen belle .'eel his ship would be carried to the vicinity vicin-ity of the.Lialcov Islands, off the delta of the, Lena river on the northern Siberian Si-berian coast. Here he believed ihe ice would be driven to the northward and thought it would lake him iwu. tho north nole. Some Uncertainty. There is some uncertainty as to the exact point rciichcel by Amundsen in Siberia. Anadir is not the name of a town, but o a river, which rises northwest north-west of Kamchatka and flows cast-j cast-j ward, emptying Into the Pacific. To reach this river by the sea, he would have been forced to go through Bering strait between Siberia and Alaska. ' There is a Russian trading post known as Anadyrsk located on tho Anadir river, about 300 miles from the mouth of the stream, but Amundsen could not reach it by vc3Bel, as Is understood un-derstood in reports. If he should have reached that town, it seems probable prob-able ho landed on the northern coast of the continent and made the trip southward by land. , Tho mouth of the Anadir river is about 3,000 miles cast of Dixson inland, inl-and, where Amundsen began his long Arctic voyage. Amundsen's purpose was not primarily pri-marily to reach the north pole, but to make scientific observations. ake soundings, study the drift of Polar ;cc and collect important data as to oceanic conditions in the far north. Use of Airships NEW YORK, April 23. It is quite possible that Captain Ronald AmUnd-sen, AmUnd-sen, whoso arrival has been reported at Anadir, eastern Siberia, may have attained the North. Polo' inairplanes ho took with him on his exploring expedition, ex-pedition, according to Dr. Edmund O. Hovey, of the American Museum of Natural 'History. Dr. Hovey headed an expedition to the relief of Explorer Donald McMillan who was stranded at Elan in 1915, and was himself frozen in Ihe Artie ice for nearly two years in Parker Snow bay, just behind Cape George on the way to the northwest coast of Greenland. Green-land. oo-