PREVIOUS POLAR DISASTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1913, Page 8

PREVIOUS POLAR DISASTERS

In no previous expedition to the Antarctic has the leader or any number of the members' perished. In the North Polar regions there has been le<s3, of life, and the following is 11 list ' f llio expeditions, the leaders of which died ' in the Arctic :—: — 1553.— Sir Hugh Willottghby and tho crews of his two ship.-? pri'ldh o't' tho Kalo Peninsula, near tho White S? 1. 1581.— 'Charles Jackma.i and the ere.v of his ship are lost in returning from KoVa Zembla. / 'WlOi—'Henry Hudson, after discovering Hudson Bay, is get adrift by mutineers on his ship in an ooen boat with his little son and some, sick men, and is never heard of again. jU>l9'.— -Sixty -one of the^ sixfcy-fottr men of Jens Munk's Danish expedition in search _of the) NorthW est Pas* sage die while wintering near the 1" - Churchill River, and Munk, one other man, and a boy sail home in i/i[w tfae» smallest of the expedition's two ships. ' "" 174 L —Captain Vitus Boring is wrecked „., on the Aleutian Islands, and dies of scurvy with most of his crew." ''18475.—- Sir John Franklin and the members of his expedition, comprising 129 souls, perish after three years in the Arctic in search of the . NorthWest passage. During the many subsequent searches for this expedition, up to 1863, sortie 7000 miles of coast-line was discovered. JBBL-— Lieut de Long (United States) and all but three members of his , „ expedition perished near tho mouth r ■■- of the Lena. ■ 1807.— The Swedish aeronaut, S. A. Andree, with two companions, leaves ' Spitsbergen in a balloon for the , North Pole, and is never afterwards f heard of. '. , ■ , 1902.— Baron Toll and his expedition in S ZZZ\ the disappear after exploring ' the New>*Siberia" Islands. - 1905.— L. MyTius-Ericksen. head of a „,. ... Damgjj expedition, with his . com- « ' panions, Hagen and Broulund. perish '. Jn » fledga dquraey v . 500. miles io