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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3524, 24 October 1882, Page 4

When referring to Mr Grant's Arctic voyage, we (Home paper) mentioned the fact that a circle of Polar observing stations were in course of establishment by various European nations. The arrangements for these are now complete. A few weeks hence a complete ring, consisting of twelve scientific stations, will be formed around the North Pole, and they are to be in operation from August let of this year to September Ist of next. The British station is to be established at Forfc Eae, on the Great Slave Lake, in British North America, Captain Dawson, E.A., being in command of it. The observations, which will be strictly carried out through all the dark and perishing cold of a Polar winter, include Artie meteorology magnetism, and astronomy. They will begin simultaneously at all stations, and be carried out on a system agreed upon by all nations taking part in the arduous work. America bas stations in Discovery Harbor, whore Sir Gr. Nares wintered in 1875-6, and at the most northern point of Alaska. Russia has established herself in the extreme north of Siberia, where the ill-fated JeaneUe expedition was found; Austria goes to the northeast of Iceland ; Denmark to Greenland ; Holland to North-West Siberia; Sweden to Spitzbergen; Norway to North Cape; and Germany to Davis' Straits.