Show MANY PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED most important enterprise Is british antarctic expedition headed by commander john lachlan cope amundsen Is traino fc north pole new york Sixteen exploration expeditions are in progress or in contemplation after four years of inactivity in this title hue of scientific research due to the great war most of these enterprises have been undertaken or projected since the armistice and they recall the lie fact that mother earth still has important biological zoological geological ethnological and meteorological problems to be solved one of the most important of these enterprises is the british antarctic expedition headed by commander command er john lachlan cope F R G S fol formerly of the british navy it Is financed fifi for includes fi five ve ships roen men several airplanes and exten extensile sige wireless apparatus the undertaking Is to require five years and its objects are the circum navi gatlon gallon of the antarctic sea a dash to the south pole the locating of new whaling grounds and the discovery of supposedly rich gold silver cal and ruby fields capt roald amundsen who mho discovered the south pole in 1911 left nome alaska last august in an attempt to reach the north pole ills his ship the blaud bad already spent nineteen nintha ninths in the arctic north of asia and oad europe and had successfully made the northeast Dort beast passage ile he expected the maud to be locked in the lee ice pack tod to drift delft toward the pole when ben the arctic winter ended in degott ahng lills hla way to nome he was wag tie irce ti e que to blast i a path through the lee ice captain amundsen was last heard beard of off east cape about miles northwest of nome in the bering strait the explorer on account of high wages ages and scarcity of men was aag handicapped by lack of help his only companions being three sailors and an eskimo cook all other on foot 7 the he other intes interesting expeditions projected or now under way ay are as follows siberia capt axel asel landmer Lan Land dmar marl and capt john catney in a 50 foot power boat are on a mile voyage to kollma river using a primitive chart made in 1878 8 by a swedish explorer on his voyage from norway to japan via the arctic ocean greenland knud It asmussen danish explorer tho returned from the east ast coast late in 1919 after studying eskimo tribes Is preparing for another expedition ot of five years duration lange koch another dane Is planning a scientific survey of north Cl Ci his main purpose being t to 0 establish danish sovereignty in that territory africa four expeditions are in progress namely the mackie ethnological expedition to central africa for the purpose of studying the Bal lima one of the chief pastoral tribes of an kole a district west of uganda the british ia tural history of museum expeditions ions to the west coast and the jeb elmaria eb marla maria mountains the duke of abruzzes effort to find the sources of the weld river which flows from Aby abyssinia tilla through italian somali land into the indian ocean and the entomological tour of the belgian portion of tanganyika and the eastern congo by T A barns who explored the itura and forests finding a strange race of pigmy savages images as well as gathering a wonderful collection of moths and butterflies baffin land donald P I 1 macmillan mho ho was with admiral peary beary plans to |