GREAT BLIZZARD
AT LITTLE AMERICA. (Per Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). . i(By„Russell Owen—Copyrighted 192? by the New York Times Company, and St. Louis Post Dispatch.- All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to New York Times.) BAY OF WHALES, August 18. There. has been a severe blizzarcl blowing here for two days, with the lowest barometer yet recorded this trip, and,one of the ' lowest ever recorded in the Antarctic. All day' yesterday the wind whooped round the chimney pipes and ventilators, sometimes exceeding 50 miles an hour, with the drift snow so thick that it shut off one’s vision as if by a wall.
The barometers were down to 27.82 degrees. Few of the men went ovei the top between the houses, preferring the tunnel,- for the only way to steer was by occasional glimpses of a cloud-oovered moon and the direc- ( tion of the wind.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 6
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