PICTURES TELL STORY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 13

PICTURES TELL STORY

GEOGRAPHICAL INTEREST

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(By Eussoll Owen.—Special to "New

York Times.")

(Received 11th December, 9 a.m.)

BAY OF WHALES, 9th December.

Photographs of the Polar flight are fascinating. The pictures of the flight through the mountains, up the deep gorge of the glacier, where the -walls ;it times only a few feet away I from the -'plane, show, the rising surface of the Barrier coming closer and closer, which necessitated throwing overboard food to lighten the 'plane, and then the final jump, over which the 'plane staggered to the long slope of the plateau. The teenery is niagInifieent, great peaks rising above the 'plane cloaked with snow, except where black, precipitous sides are too steep to hold it. ■ Rivers of ice pour down between them, a jumbled mass of mountains as impressive as any in the world, rising along the edge of the interior plateau. As the 'piano went southward from them at the point where it entered the plateau, photographs, taken, at intervals so that they overlapped, show the mountains stretched to the East, and gradually curving to the North, until the 'planereached the interior of tho Pojar plateau. Than even the mightiest of them disappeared below the horizon, and there was only a limitless plain beneath, without landmarks or guides, except the sun and tho magnetic compass.

Nothing could so well make clear the difficulty of this flight as these photographs. The whole trip to thu Pole can be- brought home to anyone when these strips are combined with ones from Little America to the mountains taken on the base-laying flight, and there is such astounding mountain scenery that everyone has been poring over them with exclamations of delight. These mountains are particularly interesting, because they are separated from any known, land heretofore placed on the charts. Byrd on his Eastern flight flew north and east and south of the Alexandra Mountains, which run in a different direction from that shown on the charts. There is a considerable distance between the Eastern and the new mountains, at least fifty miles, probably more.

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