The Norwegian-Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition

This expedition, the financial backing of which has now been secured, is planned to leave Norway in November 1949 for the Western parts of Queen Maud Land, in about long. 0°, to spend two winters there and return to Europe in 1952. As this district was claimed by Norway in January 1939, and recognized as a dependency of that country in June 1948, and as Norway is paying far more towards the expedition than either of the other countries, the expedition will sail under the Norwegian flag, and its leader will be Professor H. U. SVERDRUP, the Director of “Norsk Polarinstitutt”. The wintering group will consist of 14 men, of whom 6 are scientific experts, 2 from each country. This expedition was first proposed by me in Oslo and London in May 1946, and committees appointed for that purpose by the three countries have since been cooperating in working out the plans.