WHALERS TRAPPED IN ANTARCTIC
CrewS Walk Five Miles Across Ice FREMANTLE, March 25. The officers of Japanese whaling ships which have arrived at Fremantle staled that three catchers had been abandoned in the Antarctic and they feared that the catchers would be crushed to pieces by ice. The catchers were sheltering in a bay when the month of the bay closed upon them. For several days they tried to break through the ice and then the crews walked live miles across the ice and were picked up by another catcher which had been standing by to help them.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 9
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98WHALERS TRAPPED IN ANTARCTIC Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 9
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