IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 6

IN ANTARCTICA

A RARE SPECTACLE. ■ - ' ■ . * f , (By Russell Owen— Copyrighted 102!)' by the New York Times/Coinpiritiyl and St. Louis Post Dispatch;'All ' rights lor publication reserved" throughout. the world. Wire'ess to New Yo.ik_ I'imes.) • ' ■', BAY OF WHALES, May 11). VLast night the moon, a faint sunset, and the Aurora Australis were, seen at the same time. “Come put you fellows! Here, is the greatest sight you have ever seen!’’ called Byrd, who was just returning from a walk. \\ ithouL waiting to put on caps or gloves, everyone ran through the snow to the tunnel, and gazed in astonishment at the sky. In the north there was the thin line ol a yellow suisset, only a lew negroes long. Almost due east the moon was half above the horizon, and Was shrrounded- by clouds, which widely diffused his red glow. Running from north to south, in a bright, curtain that waved ami curved upon itself, was the Aurora. Such a rare combination of light sources has probably 7 been seen before in the Antarctic, hut it could not occur very often during the year because the moon must ho fairly at its lowest point, hut with its radiance not entirely vanished. The uncertain Aurora, must he present, and the sky must he comparatively free from clouds. It was a strange, beautiful sight.