Danish Scientists

In The Pacific

Danish schooner entered the he in June on a two-year scien expedition in the Islands—thanks 'he generosity of two Danish owners, Ivar and Knud itzen.

E schooner is the 160-ton Noona Dan, which is owned by the itzen Shipping Company. The itzens have made it available, her with its captain and crew, two years free of cost to the sh expedition. The expedition nake scientific investigations and take films. Other donations for expedition were made from te and public sources in Den e Noona Dan made a brief at Suva in July be heading for the Philippines, " the first work will be done.

Woona Dan will then head south Dutch New Guinea where she ts to arrive in January. The ists will work in Biak, and y areas, and possibly in the icsian islands.

For New Guinea xt February and March she will i the Rabaul area of New n and then will go on to the ions where the scientists will ntrate on work at Rennell and la islands. The ship will be in Denmark in January, 1963. : expedition was organised by h author Jens Bjerre, 40, who i New Guinea about 1953 when ote a book, The Last Cannibals.

Is of his visits to Menyamya, lepik and the Highlands. The Cannibals, published in 1956,

has since been translated into 12 languages.

Bjerre was in Sydney in early July before leaving by air for New Guinea, where he hopes to visit un controlled areas, and gather more material, possibly for a book.

He crossed the Atlantic on the Noona Dan, but he says he will travel alone from now on because most of his work will be in the in land areas of New Guinea. He ex pects the ship will take back to Den mark some of the ethnographical material he will be collecting.

Bjerre said that he and a film pho tographer, Arvid Klemensen, had jointly arranged the expedition to give Danish scientists an opportunity to collect all kinds of information on the earlier land bridge from Asia to the Pacific.

Will Work In Teams The scientists would work in teams of three or four and will come and go from the various islands during the course of the expedition. A well known ornithologist in the expedition will be Dr. Finn Salomonsen; a zoo logist will be Dr. Torben Wolff and an anthropologist in the team will be Dr. Torben Monberg. These people will collect information for the Uni versity of Copenhagen.

Bjerre will collect items for the National Museum of Denmark, and will also produce articles and photo graphs.

On the way to Sydney, Bjerre visited Tahiti, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia.

Photographer Klemensen will be travelling aboard the Noona Dan.

In Suva, Mr. Klemensen said he would write two books on the ex pedition, and magazine articles. He was already the author of two books.

He has been travelling for the last 16 years, and has made a film inside Russia, among other places.

Mr. Jens Bjerre.

The Noona Dan.