BYRD SHIPS BREAK THROUGH 540-MILE ICECAP
Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. After a fortnight of hattling with the Antarctic icepack Admiral Byrd's expedition ships are still picking their way through icefloes. Qnly one ship, which followed the traditional east route to the Antarctic Continent. has taken longer than the present expedition — the vessel Terrar Nova which carried Scott on his last illfated trip south. The delay in breaking through the belt of massed ice has seriously reduced the number of days that the expedition will have during the brief Antarctic summer to establish an airfield on the icecap and operate therefrom. The expedition hopes at any moment to emerge into the open waters of the Ross Sea, but has been cherishing that hope ever since it passed the normal southern limit of the pack ice days ago. A later message states that the expedition ships broke through the icepack this morning and are now in the clear water of the Ross Sea. The pack- was 540 miles, wide. The Navy is planning to send its record-break-ing patrol homher Truculent Turtle to join the Byrd Expedition at Little America.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1947, Page 5
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