THE UNEXPLORED WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 490, 24 April 1909, Page 13

THE UNEXPLORED WORLD.

GREAT CHANCE FOR ADVENTURE,

Adventurous'spirits Booking famo as discoverers will doubtless rejoice to learn, on the authority of i.tlie Royal Geogrnphical Society, that there aro to-day millions of miles ■ oi gnKjiowij, regions-m the world (says "Science ailtings ). bouth Americn, curiously enough, is the most: unexplored region, in tho world, there, being, over 2,000,000 square miles that aro marked '"Mnek" • which • indicates "unknown" on the map.of the globe which now hangs in the.Royal Geographical Society's rooms. In South' Eastern Arabia ! there is an unknown tract of 400,000 pqiiaro miles appropriately named '.'The Dwelling of the A r oid," consisting of .probably the most forbidding desert on tho face of -the earth. A Mr. G. W. Bury has just ,under£aken an expedition in the hope of reaching the unknown interior. In. Tibet Dr. Sven Hedin hns filled up ono'of tho great blnnke on the maps, and Dr. Stein has mado surveys of thousands of miles of' unmapped plateau and-mountain. Captain d'Oliono, a Prtnchmnn at work on the China-Tibetan frontier, has found'a conclave of Mongols'in tho middle of tho Tibetans. An adventurous Englishman taking his life in his hand*, is vn his way to tho unknown stretch of the lower Brahmapootra. .. . • ;, '\. t Tho '. Himalayas still remain comparatively unexplored, and, tho Duke d'Abruzzi and Dr. T. Longstaff are two explorers who hope this summer to enlarge tho world's knowledge of this region. The interior of New Guinea is another land that is unknown, niid Mr. Mikkelsen, the Arctic explorer, and Mr. Waiter Goodfollow, will shortly start on an expedition there. . . ■ ■ ...;.■ . .'

In; Africa, Mr. Vischer hopes soon to explore the mountain ram™ in the heart of the Sahara, find Lieutenant Boyd Alexander hoe just loft for the Cameroon Mountains. In the Polar regions Dr. Charcot has also begun another enterprise. '•.•■■■■ '■ .' ■ ".' ■..

Commander Peary is in thV thick of his diificulty in tho Arctic , zones, While Captain Amundsen, after explaining his plans to the Geographical Society, will start on another dnsh for the polo. Mr. A. H. Harrison line n scheme to cross the North Polar Ocean, Captain Isacbsen hopes to explore Spitsbergen, and Mr. Lepintrwdll the Mackenzie Kiver to Alaska. Explorers have no reason to complain of lack of opportunity to distinguish themselves.