IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1928, Page 5

IN ANTARCTICA

BYRD’S PROGRESS

SCOTT ISLAND FOUND

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[Received this day at 12.2-5. p.m.) VANCOUVER-. Dee. 12.

A message J'min Byrd's Expedition says: “We oenlirinet! the existence of Scott Island, which had been in doubt ever since Scott first discovered it. We nearly got lost in dangerous ice packs, lost a. hawser, and saw a whale caught. Now we are alongside the pa-k and preparing to enter it. !he finding of Scott Island is a source ol great, gratification to Byrd, as other ships i (-ported passing over the spot where it was supposed to exist, without seeing it. The island is the loneliest in tlie world le t in the ice ami a wihlerii'-ss of troubled waters. In dodging llm h-e the l-.lcanor Boiling broke away Iron: the City (."I New York. Both ships 'then made their wav singly through the ice packs. Navigation was diHieiilt. and the vessels once found themselves between the main pack and an eiiunimus piece of pack. which Byrd described as tin worst lie had ever seen. Both ship hurried out. for to have been caught there, would have been serious.

Bvrd sliliped oil (leek and Wil knocked out. lie had been mi dill.

continuously for two da vs. ill the al tom,it to take coal from tin* Eh-aum j> |!mg. hut abandoned tin* task ow-

ing t.o rough weather