Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1912 — Expedition Across Greenland. [ARTICLE]

Expedition Across Greenland.

The Swiss Society of Naturalists is raising funds to enable Dr. A. de Quervain to undertake a journey across the inland ice of Greenland from Disco bay, on the west coast, to Angamagsalik, the only Inhabited place on the east coast. The expedition expects to leave Europe on the steamer Hans Egede April 1, 1912, and to start eastward from Disco bay the middle of June. It is expected that four weeks will be required for the journey, but provisions for twice that time will be carried. Two members of the expedition are to remain on the west coast of Greenland until the spring of 1913 to carry on glaciological and aerological studies —the latter in connection with similar observations that are to be made at the same time on the east coast of Greenland, in Iceland, and in Spitzbergen.