IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1930, Page 5

IN ANTARCTICA

(By Russell Owen—Copyrighted 1929 by the New York Times Company, and St. Louis Post Despatch. All rights 'for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to New York Times.) GOULD’S REPORT. (United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) BAY OF WHALE'S, Jan. 4. Unshaven since they left Little America, Gould and party are plodding back to the base with important records. “We have roughly charted 150 miles of Queen Maud range, said Gould, in a radio message. He aded: “We demonstrated that there is no Carmen Land but that the range extends eastwards beyond 140 meridian, and therefore that the possibility of Ross and Weddell Seas being connected demands attention again. “We have been able to make many glacinlogical studies and my geological studies will demonstrate that the great mountain ranges which' ■ take their rise far away on the western side of Ross Sea. are continued as a major feature of the landscape in a fairly unbroken fashion, certainly as far as the 140th. meridian. “Capping Mt. Nansen, I did find sandstone with a layer of highly carbonacious material. This, I am sure, is beacon sandstone. I have to climb for six thousand feet to reach those cap rocks on Nansen. From a distance I had thought they were all volcanic rocks. “There are no symphonies I have ever heard that ever gave me quite the thrill that I had when I raced out, after this tremendous climb, and picked up rocks to find sandstone. This is what I had come all the way to the Antarctic to find. “Eddie, Mike and Freddy, who were with me, will tell you that I even foi,got to- cuss. Everyone is happy for, we are heading back to you. with the feeling that we have done all we have set out to do, and perhaps a little more.’’