RUSSIAN POLAR PARTIES LOST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

RUSSIAN POLAR PARTIES LOST.

IU SSANOFP AND BRI'SILOFF EXPEDITIONS ARE GI VEX IP.

Two small Russian expeditions wliu-I. have boon missing in polar regions have I icon given up as apparently list hv the Russian (Jovernment. Canada ha> l»een asked bv Russia to make pnblir the tact that tlu-so two exploration parties, sent out by the Archangel Society in I!H2, for tlie study of renditions in the Russian far north, have heen missing for two years. The expeditions were headed hy K. A. RtissanofF and Lieutenant Rrusiloff. The RussanofF party left Spitzbenjen iu the motor hoat Hercules for Nova Zembla in August 1912. That headed l.v BrusilofF started north one monthlater. The latter expedition was noconsidered adequately equipped. Hearing nothing from either explorethe Russian (Jovernment, in March. 1»14, despatched the Norwegian sliij*Kclipse to tlie rescue. Eighteen monthlater the Eclipse returned to Cliri>t?ania alter being icebound in the Arctic for many months and having learnel nothing of the fate of the missing men. Available records do not state tilnumber of men who accompanied t!i«v Ru>snnoff and Rrusiloff expeditions. It i> known that RussanofF s partv included mi oceanographer named Kutchin