ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
Saturday’s cablegrams announced that Mr Baldwin’s American Arctic Expedition will take motor cars for use on the great ice plains. This may be taken as an illustration of tho thorough manner in which tho expedition will be equipped. The whaler America, which has been bought by Mr Baldwin for his journey to the North Pole, will sail from Dundee. The America will go direct to Norway, where she will join the two other ships which will form part of the expedition, and after taking on baard stores and equipment will start for the North. Mr Baldwin will, it is said, tako with him 500 dogs and a number of mules, as well as motor cars. Work is now in progress for preparing the America for her voyage, and tho ship has been fitted with new masts and a new forecastle, and is being practically redecked. She was formally known as the Esquimaux, and is an auxiliary steam whaler, 100 h.p. engines, and has a speed of seven knots. Last year, ■while in Davis Straits, the America succeeded in getting out of the ice pack when a number of other whalers failed to do so.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 July 1901, Page 4
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196ARCTIC EXPLORATION. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 July 1901, Page 4
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