FOLAR EXPLORATION.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20256, 27 July 1937, Page 7

FOLAR EXPLORATION.

THE SOVIET EXPEDITION. VALUABLE RESULTS ACHIEVED. Untied Press As«n. —Elec. Tel. Copyrlgli: LONDON, July 26. Already the Soviet's scientific expedition at the North Pole has proi duced valuable results. It has sounded the Polar Sea and found that it is more than 3000 ft. deeper than indicated in Nansen’s researches. ! Even while drifting on the icefloe ! which supports the camp, the scientists have gained knowledge, mapping hitherto unknown areas as the wind and currents move them about. Cheerfully they have settled down to drift for a year, hoping in the process ! to discover the secrets of the currents ; which flow between the Pole and the i Atlantic. , The N iHi Pole summer climate has been prov.-d much milder than was I generally believed, with temperatures often above freezing point. Already, too, it has been learned that the Polar climate Is affected by much the same cyclones as is the climate of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. Professor Schmidt, who took the | expedition to the Pole, is modest concerning ils achievements. He attributes Russia’s outstanding triumph to l the fact that the expedition is backed Iby all the resources of the Soviet , Slate, whereas great Arctic figures of - the past, such as Nansen, Amundsen 1-and Peary, depended upon private