ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT’S ATTITUDE The Federal Government will provide an initial sum of £IOO,OOO to permit early planning of the Australian expedition to the Antarctic. About £50,000 will be spent on essential repairs to the specially-coin-structed ice-breaking vessel, Wyatt Earp. The Australian Government regards vast areas amounting to one-third of the entire Antarctic continent as directly under Commonwealth authority. The seas surrounding them constitute the richest whaling waters in the world, and are economically of vast importance. Besides official nervousness about territorial claims it is essential that utmost use be made of the brief Antarctic summer. Lincoln Ellsworth used the Wyatt Earp for five Antarctic trips and then handed her over to the South Australian Government.
At the outbreak of the war she was taken .over by the Navy. After laying cables at Darwin, she became a Navy examination ship for South Australia. Later, fitted with guns, she served as a guard ship at Whyalla. At the end of the war she was loaned to the Boy Scouts by the Navy Minister, and seemed destined to a quiet retirement. Now she has made a comeback.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 59, 28 July 1947, Page 5
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186ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 59, 28 July 1947, Page 5
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