EXPLORER’S QUEST

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20264, 5 August 1937, Page 10

EXPLORER’S QUEST

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IN THE ARCTIC. BIR JOHN FRANKLIN’S LOG-BOOK. LONELY JOURNEY PLANNED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel t Copyright. (Received August 5, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 4. Mr Francis Pease Young, the British explorer, announces he will make a second attempt in October to find Sir John Franklin’s log-book. Alone he will try to cross hundreds of miles of ice and snow and wrest from( the Arclio its 90-year secret. Mr Pease sledged 11,000 miles in 1935 in an effort to penetrate King William Island, where Sir Franklin Is buried, but an accident ended the venture when 400 miles from his objective. He says that on the Journey he met an old Eskimo, whose father had seen the body taken ashore from Franklin’s ship. Sir John Franklin, the famous British explorer, was born in 1786 at Spilsbv, in Lincolnshire. Between 1818 and 1827 he took part in three Arctic expeditions, which won for him a knighthood and other honours. From 1£36 to 1843 he was Governor of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). On May 19, 1845, he set out with the ships Erebus and Terror to explore the North-West Passage, and did not return, the whole of the expedition perishing. In June, 1859, at Port Victory was found a record, with proof that Franklin discovered the North-West Passage and died im.June, 1847, but only fragmentary knowledge concerning the expedition has been gleaned.