Kings Bay. Spitzbergen, Monday, June 22—(AP)—Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and the other members of the expedition which recently made an ineffectual attempt to reach the North Pole by airplane from Spitzbergen, will sail tomorrow from King’s Bay for Oslo, Norway. They will take with them the seaplane which brought them back from the Arctic Circle to Spitzbergen.
Ellsworth, who only yesterday received the news of the death of his father, James W. Ellsworth at Florence, Italy, on June 3, after he is said to have given up hope for the safety of his son, plans to leave for the United States shortly after his arrival at the Norwegian port.
Amundsen today told The Associated Press that he looked upon the expedition just ended as experimental, his dream for years having been to make a flight over the Pole, landing in Alaska. For this project he had now gathered much additional valuable knowledge, but he was unable to say as yet when he would undertake the next flight.
While Amundsen, Ellsworth and other members of the North Pole expedition remained resting at King’s Bay, Lieutenant Lutzow Holm, of the Norwegian relief expedition and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, one of Amundsen’s pilots, went by the steamer Heimdal to North Cape to recover the plane N-25 which was extricated from the ice near the Pole and brought the expedition back to Spitzbergen. The plane was found in Brennvin Bay, 150 miles away and was flown back to Kings Bay.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, June 24, 1925