The Canadian Arctic Expedition

Abstract

MR. VILJALMUR STEFANSSON, the Canadian Arctic explorer, whose unexpected safety is announced, contributes his personal narrative of the expedition to Monday's Daily Chronicle. He left Alaska in July, 1913, for the Beaufort Sea. Bases were also to be established on Prince Albert Sound and Patrick Island. Mr. Stefansson was accompanied by Dr. Forbes Mackay and Mr. James Murray, of Shackle-ton's first Antarctic expedition; M. Henri Beuchat, a French anthropologist, who was to study the Eskimo of Bank Land; Mr. W. L. McKinlay and others. Captain Bartlett, of Peary's North Pole expedition, was in charge of the Karluk, the main ship of the expedition. Whether or not the Karluk could reach Patrick Island and penetrate the Beaufort Sea de pended on the prevailing winds. With a persistence of easterlies, which Stefansson hoped for, this would be possible, but otherwise he realised that his plans must be modified.