THE STEFANNSON EXPEDITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11650, 19 August 1916, Page 2

THE STEFANNSON EXPEDITION.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received August 18, noon. •New York, August 17. There is no . official news of the , northern section of the expedition, hut Wilkins reported that the schooner was 'beached at Cape Killett. Another schooner was unable . to proceed farther north than the nnnamsef island and West Banks Island. The ship Polar Bear, under Stefansson, nnsuccessfully attempted a voyage td the West Bank Island in 1905, but u’as forced to return, wintering betwbe? Banks Island and Victoria Island'. p . la . ns were made to spend 1916 in obta MmK S ro ,°. re information about the la. nd “I s ' covered by Stefans son in 1915. "Hi® Stefaunson party started its expeu r taon in May, and intend to remain * as long as possible, spend the sum- ft mer in the Northern rejoin- j t ing the Polar Bear at Melville Island 11 Polarßeaif wiil 1916 and at Mel _ The nOTsh ern intended to return in 1916, but hardly anticipate * hat possible owing to the scattering of the parties. The explorers are well supplied for two years. The southern party brought many tons of specimens. The re mapping of Bathurst Island region corrects the errors of Sir John Franklin and Dr. Anderson’s reports. Stefasnson may not return until 1918. After remaining with the Stefasnson party Wilkins made a trip over the ice and joined the southerners, Stefannson told him that the new land discovered might be described as another Greenland. London, August 17. Doctor Anderson, leader of the northern section of Stefansson’s expedition, has'returned home|from Alaska. Over 100 islands were charted in the region heretofore mapped as the Chapman, Lewis and ' Maicet Islands. In the Bathurst : Inlet, a great field was investigated where native copper is widely distributed in extensive quantities. The expedition made valuable ethnological and archaeological collections, including over a thousand specimens of birds and mammals.