AN ANTARCTIC HOLIDAY
A ROMANTIC SCHEME.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
this day at 8.30- a.m.) LONDON, Fe'o. 17. , A romantic of holidaying in the Antarctic is devised by Captain J. R. Sten of Bliackleton’s “(Aurora” and ltoyal Research ship “Discovery.” He intends to equip a seventeen thousand ton trans-Atlantic liner to carry British and American passengers to the Antarctic. He proposes to sail from Southampton on December 10th on a four and a half months cruise to the southern limit of navigation. The passengers will be able to join in' a two days dash on dog sleighs on the Antarctic continent. The cruise is expected to appeal to women, as the Antarctic continent is the only remaining part of the earth on which they. have not set foot. It is also proposed to visit Byrd’s base and the winter huts . used by Scott and Shaekleton and Amundsen’s base at the Bay of IV hales.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1930, Page 5
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