BYRD EXPEDITION

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1928, Page 3

BYRD EXPEDITION

THE LATEST PLANS

DUNEDIN, November 27

Provided the ice reports from the whaling ships in the Ross Sea are favourable, the barque City of New York, villi < ommamler Byrd and fifty members aboard, will leave Dunedin on i'riday direi-l for the Hay of Whales n the Antarctic. " We will he on the ice for one and ' ImL years,” said Commander Bvrd.

''lion the expedition was passing lirough the embryonic stage. llieComr,under expressed the hope that if con lit ions on the ice plateau were pro litmus !m would be able to do all the

lannod Lying in n few months, and villi sms ess achieved return lo civil is- • tinn again before darkness' settled ver Hie Antarctic fur the,long winter, 'owever. that plan, or hone, lias now been definitely abandoned. As the

'•mmundcr emphasised once again, the expedition is not a dash or " stunt” exploit, hut an expedition for scientific exploration. The second supply ship, tlm Eleanor

'. iL'im;. will stay in Dunedin till about Christinas, when she will sail lor the -oath. Should the ice harrier of flm Ross Sea provide a good passage the learner should he hack in Dunedin hilly-five days later, and is expected to reach the base camp again on March Ist with the remainder of Hie supplies nd equipment. With the City W New York the

Eleanor Rilling will 'then return to winter quarters at Dunedin, and leave gain at the breaking of the pack ice 'ii the early summer of 1929 with Iresli incisions for the ice party. This announcement. was made to-day by Mi Richard G. Bropliv, business manage! and second in command of the expedit ion.

Commander Byrd will he given a civic reception on Thursday. Tlm crews of both vessels made a pilgrimage to the cairn above Fort- ( halniors, erected to the memory of Captain Scott and his four companions wluperished in the. Antarctic blizzard.