IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 6

IN ANTARCTICA

THE SUN WELCOMED

LONG WINTER BREAKS

.United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (By Russell Owen —Copyrighted 192 R by the; Niw•‘•York Times Company, and St. Louis Post Dispatch. All rights for publication- -reserved throughout the world. Wiro'ess to New Yoik Times.) rr - (Received- this day at 9.25 a.in.) BAY OF WHALES, August 20. Unfair..advantage ..was taken of the sun to-day. Officially the sun is not due back ! until Thursday, but it was so close to the horizon at noon that men climbed the radio tower and saw it, as it peeped from the top of the Barrier Hills. It did not quite detach itself from the • clinging skyline, but at last three-quarters Df it was .visible.' Not only that, but a seal was killed for fresh- meat, making it a notable day- . The snow-shovel gang went out making an end- of the long hibernation. Bert Balchen and Sverre Strow went qh skis to Frankeim to see the condition of the ice at the approaches xo the barrier, where the southern track winds through the pressure ice and crevasses. They found many new upheavals.'and crevasses as if there had been a terrific pressure there this winter.

On F'o way home they came by way of tim ice : "d ’’ad to make a wide detour to get back around the pressure ice, which had been forced up in tlie last few months.

Tl..c entire surface of the bay between here and 'Frankeim has apparently changed and is so broken that it may go out this season much further than last year.