| Show DISCOVERY OF POLE ENDS LP QUEST OF J F AGES re record c i ord of arctic explorations runs back for centuries and Is id recital of dire adventure and tragedies an american dr frederick A cook has captured tho the honor for which daring spirits for centuries have sacrificed life and limb that magic point known as the he north pole has finally been located by man and the quest ot of ages Is at an aa end the story of ex explorations pl orations Is a recital ot of dire adventure anil and tragedies which runs rung back 1000 years to the time when tho the irish monte monk with a number ot at his clerical brothers sailed as far north as an iceland and found as the writings of state that there was no darkness in lit iceland during the summer solstice but long before the ninth century the ancients according to rh Ph theas had a legendry knowledge of a tar far northern island known as thule and in tho the first book of ills his translation of or oflus king alfred told of the first voyages for discovery made by other and Wulf stan while the localities men atoned cannot now be located it Is probable ablIe that other rounded north calle cae ca e and visited tho the coast of lapland in 1815 tolar polar exploration found a promoter in SI sit john narrow barrow who offered a reward of sterling to anyone making the northwest passage and fa reaching 89 degrees north latitudes latitude which would be 09 miles bouen ot of ibo be pole pae prize prise two years later in 1817 two expeditions set out one by wity way of spitsbergen the 0 other r by naff Daff lna las bay the tha dorothea and the 7 he trent on the spitz bergen route were commanded by capt david buchen and john franklin the other expedition was in cb charge arge of capt john ross rosa and edward parry neither expedition was a success in 1827 parry 0 on n his third voyage made his historic dash for the polo pole from spitzbergen Spitz bergon bergen by sledge boats and reached latitude 82 degrees and 12 minutes 0 11 fr join 1 F made his made his bis effort to reach the pole with sledge and boat using a ship from rona Spitz spitzbergen bergen scene of ills his later attempts by balloon night flight ills vessel the Rag ragnvald avald jarl was waa crushed by bir floes may alay 28 1894 at walden island lid he continued north by sledge alter after the wreck occurred lie he was waa obliged to abandon the attempt sli miles from froia platen island near the eighty first parallel ills second expedition was in 1898 9 when he penetrated franz joset josef land tie ile had raised the funds for the expedit expedition ion without assistance his ship was the frithjof a norwegian vessel I 1 in 1899 the ship of the duke of j abruzzi touched at franz josef land lan d and wellman Well ninn as the first settler we wel 1 corned coined the duke then in 1906 well wel man was prepared to start in his fir first s t attempt to reach the pole in a dirigible balloon atmospheric conditions were wera such as to make a start impracticable ff 74 4 n X re camp of an exploration party he started however a yearn year later but was forced to halt again last months he started but the accident to his balloon forced him again to relinquish the tha project ile he announced then that he would try again in 1897 andree andrea and two companions left danes island froula from n point only a lew few hundred yards from walter well mans camp in an attempt to teach reach the pole iola by balloon it was not a balloon and the hope of the explorers was that the winds would blow it up tip to the pole the last seen of the balloon it was drifting out over the barents pea gen and since then nothing has been heard of it nor has a tracel traca been found the aa adventures ventures of frithjof nansen the norwegian explorer who in 1896 got na as far north as latitude 86 degrees 14 minutes are recent enough to a be ba comparatively fresh in the public me memory ile he sailed from lir irr the fram with the intention of foro ing his way into the arctic ice near the tha i 4 4 2 iva 13 il g i Z A v 44 A polar exploration vessel banked with snow tragic voyage ills ships the erebus and the terror were seen by a whaler in july 1845 and that w waa a a the last trace for three years th the e D british ri til 1 sh admiralty mi ral ralty spurred on by lady franklin sent out relief expeditions but the only reward of the searchers was the discovery ot at the grew some soine relics of a frightful tragedy one vessel had been crushed in the ice the other had bad been stranded on thepdore the hore of king Willi araa island three winters in the not DOI th tb had reduced the explorers to skeletons and they had fallen alien one by one by the way in an effort to drag their sledges over the lea ice to a land camp tile the ali flod W of arctic exploration was int r U alle wellman in ile ho new siberian islands and then drift i ing to the pole A party was sent out to establish supply stations to which the tha explore rf rt might retreat it 1 necessary and thel the cross country work was to t 0 bo be dons dono on skis nansen was aasc absent ut a long time and fears were entertained tot for tila fits safety but he be returned having pen en farther north than any other explorer up to that time in igloo the ouke duke of A abruzzo nephew or of the king of 0 italy balled train from carla in the stella polard kle lie was wa considered an amateur blithe but he planted plante his alg standard in lati latitude tuda EG d a ca c a I 1 minutes a new record that bat stood antl beary penetrated to 87 4 dar grees 6 minutes six years latr |
