ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
VOYAGE OF THE MAUDE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received. Dec. 26, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 22. A message from Captain Wisting, on the Maude, dated the fifteenth, wirelessed via Spitzbergen, states that the Maude left Pointhorpe on July 26. North-westward she met ice in seventy degrees latitude, which she penetrated for ninety kilometres. By August 1, when sjie sighted Harold Island, the winter had arrived exceedingly early, and the Maude was frozen in on August 22, her position being 70 degrees 20 min. north and 175 degrees 25 min. west. She drifted variously reaching 70 degrees 20 min. north and 173 degrees west.
At eight o’clock on the morning of September 26 the opening in the ice, in which the Maude lay, began to contract, pressing a large block of ice slowly, but powerfully, against the Maude’s starboard side. This was her first, experience. The screwing lasted half an hour, at the end of which an ice barrier formed ahead and astern three metres high, while the Maude herself was raised two feet above the water.
Contrary to expectations, we found a few fauna and saw some walruses and killed some seals and two polar bears. The time passes smoothly and quickly. All are well.—United Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1922, Page 5
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