IN ANTARCTICA
(By Russell Owen—Copyrighted 1929 by the New York Times Company, and St. Louis Post Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to New York Times.) FEAR OF ICE PACK. KEEPING EXPEDITION ANOTHER YEAR. (Received this day at 8.30* a.m.) BAY OF WHALES, Jan. 22. Byrd has asked the State Department to request 'the Government of Norway .to have the powerful Norwegian whalers help the City of New York and Eleanor Bolling through the ice pack. The City of New York reached tlio edge of the ice pack and found unprecedented conditions. The Eleanor Bolling joins her on the 26th. To avoid spending another year at Little America the expedition must leave by February 20th. Five whalers are in' the Ross 'Sea and could forge their way through. Byrd returned yesterday from a flight to Discovery Inlet, flying west from here one hundred mileis, and then south 140 miles through the centre of the Great Barrier, in search for signs of land, which would protect that long arm of the sea. and explain its formation. The only possible indication of land was in the region of the pressure about one hundred miles south of the inlet. An area of fifteen thousand square miles of new territory was observed during the flight. While in the air. Byrd was in touch with the City of New York throughout. The station here is discussing matters connected with the problem of getting out this j T ear, which because of the late season and heavy pack, js assuming a serious aspect. One message was a telephone communication which New York received from London and which was sent to Litle America from the office of the “New York Times” and was relayed to the ’plane while over the Barrier, more than a hundred miles from Little America.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1930, Page 6
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306IN ANTARCTICA Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1930, Page 6
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